500 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. one of the early settlers of Muskingum county, and the latter was born on the farm in Licking township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer were the parents of four children, who lived to maturity: Margaret A., Sylvester M., William and. Susan A. Mr. Spencer was a farmer, and passed all his days on the farm. He died in 1889, at the age of seventy-five. Both were members of the Methodist church. Mr. Spencer was class-leader, and a very religious man. He was well known among the pioneers as an industrious and honorable citizen. In politics he was an old line whig, and afterward a republican. His son, Sylvester M., served four years in the Civil war, Company A, Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was in all the battles of his regiment. He was orderly sergeant, and escaped unhurt. After marriage Mr. Littler settled on his farm in Gridley township, Ill., and remained there until 1889, when he came to Frazeysburg. He and Mrs. Littler are members of the Methodist church. He has held the offices of trustee and steward, and contributes liberally of -his means to its support. In politics he affiliates with the republican party. While a resident of Illinois he was tax collector and school director. Since coming to Frazeysburg he has been elected to the town council, and is commander of Griffe post No. 331, G. A. R. He has accumulated a goodly property, and is one of the substantial men of the county. He is self-made, beginning with nothing, and has accumulated all his property by his own exertions. When his country needed his services he did not hesitate to risk his life in its defense, and his colonel, John McNulty, wrote of him that he was a brave and true soldier. Z. D. Lovejoy, agent for the B. & 0. R. R. at New Concord, and a popular druggist of that town, owes his nativity to Barnsville, Belmont county, Ohio, born on February 24, 1859. He comes of a prominent family of Maryland, and is third in order of birth of six children born to Perry G. and Eliza E. (Mount) Lovejoy, both natives of New Market, Md., and both born in the year 1832. The father was a prominent railroad man, and after his marriage moved to Belmont county. This was in about 1857 or 1858, and he resided there until the breaking out of Civil war, when he entered the army. He participated in a number of prominent engagements, in one of which he received a gunshot wound, which resulted in his death in 1865. To his marriage were born the following children, four sons and two daughters: Robert B.. married, is engaged in the coal business in Steel, Belmont county, Ohio; John W., married, is engaged in the same business with his brother Robert, but in connection is also engaged in merchandising; Z. D. (subject); David M., married, is United States express agent at Chicago Junction, Ohio. The two daughters, one the eldest and the other the youngest of the family, are both deceased. Sarah E. married a Mr. Lovejoy, and at her death left six. children, and Ellen G. died when sixteen years of age. The father and mother. of these. children were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and none were more highly esteemed and respected than they. Z. D. Lovejoy was left fatherless when but six years of age, and two years later he started out to fight his own way in life, first living out for board and clothes. After this he clerked for a time, then' tilled the soil on a farm, mined a little, and when twenty-one years of age learned the railroad business, securing a position on the B. & O. R. R. the following December. Since that time he has been with that railroad company. He came to New Concord in March, 1883, and here he has made his home ever since. He embarked in the drug and book business in April, 1891, still continues this, and also holds his position as agent at the railroad depot. Mr. Lovejoy selected his life companion in the person of Miss Edith E. Austin, a native of Edgerton, Ohio, born on March 17, 1858, and their nuptials were celebrated at Edgerton, Williams county, Ohio, April 30, 1882. Her father, A. D. Austin, is a prominent attorney of that town. Mr: and Mrs. Lovejoy's union has been blessed by the birth of four children: Claude A., born May 10, 1883; E. Pearl, born February 16, 1885; David Warren, born November 16, 1887, who died at the age of two years, and Bishop O., born August 26, 1889. Both parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Lovejoy is a member of the I. O. O. F., and succeeded in establishing a lodge in New Concord in 1888. This now has forty-eight members. He has been officially connected with the lodge, was the first noble grand, and since that time he has held the prominent position' of permanent secretary. He first connected himself with the lodge at Fort Defiance, in Defiance county, this state, in 1882, and has been an active member of the lodge ever since. He is also a member of other organizations. In politics. he affiliates with the democratic party. Mr. Lovejoy is active in school and church work, and is a public spirited young man, assisting in every way in all enterprises of a worthy nature. He has been unusually successful as a business man, and has done much to advance the interests of the town in the last few years. He embarked in the hay business with S. H. Vandivort, under the firm name of Lovejoy & Vandivort, and they are now engaged in buying and baling hay for the eastern market. They do a rushing business, and are pushing, enterprising men. Mr. Lovejoy owns a good home in New Concord, and they also own the building in which their hay business is carried on. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 501 William B. Lowry is a member of one of the oldest families in Muskingum county, Ohio, and of Irish descent. He was born on a farm near Roseville in 1839, and was one of the eleven children born to the union of Jaremiah and Susanna (Richardson) Lowry. The father was also born in the county, and was a son of Camdy Lowry and wife. Camdy Lowry came from Ireland to the United States at an early day. He reared a family of twelve children, Jaremiah being one of them, all deceased except Camdy, now living in Iowa. Jaremiah was born and reared in this county. Here he received his education and learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed most of his life, but the latter part he entered the mercantile and stoneware business. He commenced the manufacture of stoneware. about 1852, and was very successful in it. He was much interested in politics, and always voted the democratic ticket. In early life he married Susanna Richardson, and they had a family of eleven children, all living. The father died in 1877. The mother of this remarkable family was born near Roseville, a daughter of one of the pioneers of this county, who was a farmer and school-teacher. She was a member of the Christian church, and died in 1877 at the age of seventy years. The children were: Albert, Austin, Lyman, Milton, Ellen, William (subject), Catherine, Sarah, Walter, Adolph and Harriet. Of these, only five live in this county, the rest having moved West, three as far as California. The pottery business was started by the father about 1852, and he educated his boys to the business. William B. Lowry, in 1861, enlisted in Company A, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, under Capt. Edwards and Col. F. B. Pond. He enlisted as a private, and later became captain. Some of the battles in which he took part were Winchester, Port Republic, Black Water, Petersburg, Fort Wagner, and a number of skirmishes. He was captured, after being wounded, at Deep Bottom, Va., August 16, 1864, and first confined to Libby prison, and later at Saulsborough and Danville; he was a prisoner about six months, and was discharged February 22, 1865. Upon returning to Richmond, after it was held by the Union sol- diers, he was given charge of a company to guard Libby prison, and held as prisoner the officer who had held him prisoner only a short time before, probably the only circumstance of the kind on record. He recovered from his wound, and was discharged at Point, Va., when he returned home. He settled at Roseville, and has since re- sided here. He had four brothers in the war; all served through the entire struggle and came home. They were Walter, Lyman, Milton and Adolph. William B. started in the stoneware business with his brother Walter, which they carried on for about six or eight years, when they dissolved, and since that time our subject has been in business alone, manufacturing stoneware since the past fifteen years, and making drain tile and flower pots, making and selling annually about $10,000 worth of goods. Mr. Lowry was married in 1867 to Mildred Caton, a native of this county, born in 1841, and the daughter of George W. and Mildred (Buckley) Caton, natives of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and have a family of four children: Silas F., is a man of family, liv- ing at Putnam; Annetta, is now Mrs. Samuel Moore (her husband is a teacher in the public school of Roseville; Edna is at home and Harry is still at school. The children are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Lowry is much interested in politics, and is a democrat. He is mayor of the town of Roseville. Socially, he is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the G. A. R. post No. 290, of Roseville, which he helped to organize, and is among the leading citizens of the community. In endeavoring to trace the genealogy of Benson Loyd, Dresden, Ohio, we find that his paternal grandfather, Joseph Loyd, was a native of Pennsylvania and of Welsh descent; that he served in the Revolutionary war, lived to the great age of ninety- eight years, and died in Jefferson county, Ohio. The latter's son, and the father of our subject, Eli Loyd, 'was born in Lancaster county, Penn., and served under Gen. William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. He was married in his native state to Miss Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of John Campbell, of Ohio county, W. Va., and nine children were the fruits of this union: Joseph, John C., Margaret, Sarah (died young), William W., Benson, Eli, Anna and Jesse, all of whom were born in Ohio county, W. Va. In December, 1828, Mr. Loyd came to Muskingum county, Ohio, settled in what is now Cass township, and there passed the remainder of his days. He owned 160 acres of land and was a substantial farmer, following that occupation until his death in June, 1857, when eighty-one years of age. He was of a quiet, retiring disposition and made no attempt to hold office. Iii politics he was a democrat. His son, Benson Loyd, was born in Ohio county, W. Va., on January 19, 1818, and was but a little over ten years of age when he came with his parents to the Ohio wilderness. He grew up in the rough school of pioneer days, and, although he had but limited educational advantages, he made the best of his opportunities, and became well posted on all subjects. In 1848 he married Miss Jemimah Cole, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Welsh) Cole, the father a native of Pennsylvania and one 502 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of the first settlers of Muskingum township. Mr. Cole was the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom lived to marry, and Mrs. Loyd was the youngest of this large family. Mr. Cole was a well-to-do farmer and was the owner of 400 acres of land. He was one of the first members of the Presbyterian church in this county, and died in full communion with the same when seventy-eight years of age. After marriage Benson Loyd settled with his wife in Cass township, and three years later moved to the home place in that township where they resided until 1873, having bought the place in 1857. In 1868 Mr. Loyd was elected sheriff and served in that capacity for four years, filling the position in such a capable and efficient manner that he was reelected. He has also been township trustee for eleven years and township commissioner for two years. In politics he is a stanch democrat. Mr. Loyd has ever been interested in educational matters and was school director for nine years. Mrs. Loyd died March 19, 1872. She was a devout Presbyterian in her religious views, and Mr. Loyd is of the same belief. He assisted with his means in building the Presbyterian church in Dresden and has also been liberally disposed toward other churches, assisting in building the Presbyterian church in Muskingum township,. the Baptist church in Dresden, and the Old School Baptist church in Shannon. To Mr. and Mrs. Loyd were born nine children: Hannah, Elmos J., Martha M., James C., Wilson, Willis H. Alphis, Phoebe A., and Lemert B. In August, H., Mr. Loyd settled on his present farm, consisting of 160 acres pleasantly situated near Dresden, and here he expects to pass the remainder of his days in ease and comfort. He is a representative citizen, has the confidence and respect of all, and has ever discharged the duties of the different official positions he has held, in a creditable and satisfactory manner. His daughter, Hannah, married Charles Gurrin, a farmer of Perry county, Ohio. Elmos J., is connected with the First National bank of St. Paul, Minn. James C., married Miss Ada Lewis, and is in the cattle business in Boise county, Idaho. Willis H. married Miss Anna Franks, and is train inspector at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Wilson is a resident and farmer of Illinois. The remainder of the family are at home. John Wesley Ludmanis the proprietor of a general mercantile establishment at Chandlersville, and keeps a select stock of goods valued at about $6,000. He keeps dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, gents' and ladies' furnishing goods, queensware, wall paper, groceries, etc., and it is a pleasure to know that in dealing at this store there is no probability of getting anything except as it is represented, and this is undoubtedly due to Mr. Ludman's good intention; for he prides himself on his honesty, and his good name is above reproach. He was born in Perry township, Muskingum county, Ohio, September 16, 1855, to Henry and Caroline Hyatt, being the eldest of their eight children, two died when infants. The father is a native of England, and in 1841 came to America, settling on a farm in Union township,, of this county, but for the past thirty years has been a resident of Rich Hill township. The initiatory training of John Wesley Ludman was obtained in the common schools, and from 1874 to 1879, he followed the occupation of farming as a hired hand, thus following in the footsteps of his father. In 1880 he turned his attention to his present business at Moscow Mills, Morgan county, Ohio, where he remained one year, after which he came to his present location. In 1880 he was married to Miss Sybil Ann Phillis, daughter of Thomas W. Phillis, of Ohio, and .to them a family of three children has been born: Pearl Henry, Alenza Blanche and Cora Maud. Mr. Ludman and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which he is a liberal contributor. He is charitable and influential, and is in every respect a self made man. He has been the postmaster at Chandlerville since 1889, and is regarded as a capable man for the office. John H. Lynn, of Nashport, Ohio, belongs to an old Virginia family, his father, George Lynn, having been born August 14, 1792, near Winchester, of that state. The paternal grandfather was a native Scotchman, and had three sons: George, Daniel and Henry. Daniel was an innkeeper of Winchester in early times. George was married at Reading, Penn., to Catherine Elizabeth Spotz, and. after his marriage lived in Winchester, where he followed the calling of a baker. He afterward went to Wardensville, W. Va., and kept a tavern for many years. Here his wife died, and in 1845 he came to Nashport, Ohio, and began working for his son William, who had been engaged in the mercantile business with Levi Claypool for a number of years. Upon first coming to Ohio, William Lynn clerked for I. W. Baker, of Newark, but after becoming associated with Mr. Claypool he remained with him until he was elected treasurer of Muskingum county, when he removed to Zanesville about the opening of the Civil war. George Lynn was the father of eight children: William, Edward, Maria A., Daniel, John H., Julia, Susan and Isaac. The father of these children was elected constable of Hardy county, W. Va., when the duties of a constable were of far more importance than they are now, and his collections extended over the entire county. He was a man of integrity, and lived to the age of fifty-four years. John H. Lynn, his son, and whose name heads this HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 503 sketch, was born in Hardy county, now West Virginia, April 20, 1827, but his early educational advantages were very meager. He managed, however, to learn to read and write during the three months' attendance at a district school. He early learned to rely upon his own resources, and when a young man of nineteen, in 1846, came to Licking County, Ohio, and worked on a farm for his brother-in-law, Jesse O. Switzer, who had married his oldest sister, Ann. In 1848 he returned to Virginia, where he worked as a farm laborer for three years, and in February, 1851, he returned to Ohio, walking the entire distance of 300 miles in company with another man, carrying his effects in a handkerchief over his shoulder. He remained in Licking county until 1855, and on March 25, 1856, he took up his abode at Nashport, where he ran the still at Claypool's distillery for three years. Following this he farmed for one season, and in 1860, in company with Norton F. Claypool, he planted the first successful peach orchard in the county, and first established the fact, which is now so successfully carried out, that the southwest hill- side is the best place for a peach orchard, as the buds do not so easily winters kill. These ideas he obtained from an old West Virginian by the name of Wilson, who had a famous peach orchard on Sugar Knob, in Hardy county. Mr. Lynn and Mr. Claypool made a contract to plant the Claypool peach orchard,' and in this enterprise they continued joint partners until 1880. The orchard contained 7,000 trees and was famous all the country round. Many thousand bushels were shipped from it, and was the means of establishing the present flourishing peach business in this section of the country. Mr. Lynn is the owner of 116 acres of land, on which is a fine peach orchard, and is making rapid progress in this business. He was married November 23, 1870, to Miss Malinda Victor, daughter of Philip and Rachel (Claypool) Victor, the former of whom was a son of Philip Victor, an old pioneer of the county and a soldier of the War of 1812. Philip Victor, the father of Mrs. Lynn, became the father of thirteen children: James, Marchal (or Marsh), Sarah, Melinda, Marietta, Zara, William H., John, Fred, Jane, Emma, Harriet and Julia. Of this large family all are living with the exception of Marietta. Mr. Victor died at the age of fifty-six years. He was a cooper and farmer and a hard-working and honest man. To Mr. and Mrs. Lynn the following children have been born: John H. November 26, 1871; Levi W., May 19, 1873; George, January 5, 1875; Annie R., March 18, 1877; Jesse V., January 4, 1880; Eddie E. and Ettie (twins), July 7, 1884. Ettie died at the age of three months. Mrs. Lynn is a member of the New School Baptist, church, and although not a member, Mr. Lynn is a believer in the same doctrine. Politically, he is a republican. He is a practical farmer, a successful fruit grower, and an upright man. He is giving his children all the advantages his means will afford, and is a believer in educational progress. Although he has met with some business misfortunes, he now bids fair to become a wealthy citizen. Andrew. Lyons, farmer, High Hill, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, born on December 24, 1824, and the reputation which heenjoys is not only that of a substantial and progressive farmer, but of an intelligent and thoroughly posted man on all public affairs. His parents, Thomas and Esther Lyons, were natives of the Emerald isle, but emigrated to the United States at an early period. The father came to Meigs township, Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1822; was among the early settlers, and there his death occurred thirteen years later. Andrew Lyons received a very limited education in the common schools, never attending school more than eight months altogether, but being a close observer and a great reader, is thus better posted than a great many who have had much better opportunities. He began for himself, at the age of twenty-two, as an agriculturist, and this has continued to be his chosen occupation through life. In 1848 he bought 158 acres of land in section 8, Meigs township, and to this he added, from time to time, until he owned 282 acres of excellent land. He was married, on May 30, 1849, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Henry and Mary White, of Irish descent. Mrs. White died in 1870, and two years later, Mr. Lyons wedded Miss Mary McKonkey. He has held the office of trustee, and socially is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity. In politics he is strictly democratic. He holds a membership in the Presbyterian church at High Hill. John Hunt McCann, is one of the old settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, and belongs to the oldest branch of the McCann family. [For early history of this family see sketch of Orville McCann.] Samuel McCann, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born April 2, 1780, on a farm within twelve miles of Belfast, Ireland, and was one of a family of five children. Archibald, Samuel, George, James and Sallie. He was the first of the family to come to America, but his three brothers afterward came at different times. His sister, Sallie, married in Ireland and there spent her days. George never married. He came to Ohio and died in Erie county at the age of seventy. Archibald settled on a farm in Muskingum county and was married to Mary Matthews, of Ireland by whom he became the father of nine children: David, Samuel, James, Jane, Sarah, Robert, George, Thomas and Archibald. Archibald McCann was well educated for, that day and was one of the early and successful school teachers of the 504 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. county. He was a weaver by trade and lived to be seventy-five years of age, at which time he was drowned in the Muskingum river at Zanesville. His children were well educated and all became school teachers. David and Archibald became physicians in later years and the latter is the only one of the family now known to be living and is a medical practitioner of Antwerp, Ohio. Robert graduated at Kenyon college, Ohio, then left home and has never been heard from since. James, the brother of Samuel, and uncle of John Hunt McCann, came to America and settled near his brother, Samuel. He had married, in Ireland, Eliza Hamilton and by her became the father of seven children: James, Jane, Eleanor, Robert, John, Samuel, and Mary. James McCann Sr. finally moved to Illinois and settled on a farm in Macon county, where he died at the age of seventy-six years. His family were also well educated, and nearly all of them became school teachers. His sons, John and Robert, are business men of Zanesville. Samuel McCann Sr., father of our subject, was a weaver by trade and at the age of twenty years, in 1800, he came to America and directly to Ohio, entering a tract of 110 acres of land in Muskingum county. Al this time Zanesville consisted of two or three log cabins and there was not a cabin or stick cut, so far as he knew, 100 miles north. His land was one mile southeast of where Shannon now stands and on it is now an old burying ground where about thirty of the old settlers sleep. John H. McCann is the only person now living who can locate and name their graves, which are kept up by the family. Samuel McCann was the first man to settle in Muskingum township, but in 1805 Levi Cooper came with his wife and five children, and in 1802 or 1803 Samuel Cole settled here and became the father of nineteen children. Settlers poured in rapidly after this and dense forests soon gave place to well-cultivated fields of grain. Samuel McCann, at the age of twenty, was alone in a dense wilderness of heavy timber in which black bear, wolves and panthers abounded, and game of all kinds native to the country roamed at will. Deer and wild turkey, were plentiful and a few buffaloes were to be found. After entering his land and locating his claim Mr. McCann went to Hagerstown, Md., and remained about two years, after which he returned to his land. He married Rebecca Cooper, daughter of Levi Cooper, the pioneer, and four children were born of this union: Archibald, Rebecca, James and Sarah. The mother of these children died May 6, 1824, after which Mr. McCann married Mary Hunt, daughter of Rev. Stephen Hunt, a pioneer Presbyterian minister, who lived many years at Irville. To his second union eight children were born, two dying in in fancy and Elizabeth at the age of twelve years. The others were: John H., Mary A., Eleanor, Sophia, and Samuel A. Mr. McCann gradually cleared up a farm and built a log cabin in which he lived for many years. He then erected a hewed-log house (over seventyfive years ago), which is still standing and is the residence of his grandson, Samuel McCann, who married Ada Lane and has one son named Glen. In this house John Hunt McCann was born. The family reunion of 1892 will be held there. Samuel McCann was a good hunter, and kept his family well supplied with wild meat. He was a noted marksman and killed as many as twenty-four squirrel without missing a shot, and often carried off the palm at the old-time shooting matches. The Indians were plentiful, but were peaceful and friendly. Mr. McCann wove the clothing for his family from flax and wool, and his wife and children made them into garments. He depended upon himself for everything and the meal which they used at first was pounded in mortars. Later they went to Zanesville to mill and was often compelled to wait all night for his turn. By hard work and economy he became possessed of a competency and gave his two eldest sons 160 acres of land a piece, John H. 110 acres and Samuel 150 acres—the home place. To his daughters he gave money. He lived to the age of seventy-five years, dying September 12, 1855. Although not a member he supported the Presbyterian church of which his wife was a member. He was a democrat, politically, and was one of the county commissioners when the land was purchased where the county infirmary now stands. He held the position of justice of the peace and other township offices in early times. John Hunt McCann, his son, was born on the old homestead, February 6, 1825, and in the pioneer subscription schools he obtained his education. His teachers were Archibald McCann, his uncle, Robert McCormick (who was a fine penman and from whom John H. learned to write a clear and beautiful hand) and others. He also learned the details of farming and the use of tools in his youth and until he was twenty-seven years of age he remained at home. He then received 110 acres of land from his father, and April 10, 1851, married Elizabeth McGlade, who was born February 14, 1828, a daughter of William and Jane (McCann) McGlade, the former of whom was born in Virginia, September 14, 1800. His father was a Scotch-Irishman who came to this country from Ireland and' settled in Virginia, where he married and remained until he was the father of four children, then came to Ohio and located at the salt works near Zanesville. He was a substantial farmer and his six youngest children were born here. He settled on laud inherited from his HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 505 father, who had seven sons and gave them each eighty acres of land. William McGlade moved to Iowa in 1858 and settled on a farm in Delaware county, where he died in his eighty-sixth year and his wife in 1869 at the age of sixty-seven years. They were Covenanters in religious belief and during the war a strong abolitionist. For several years prior to his death he was blind. His children who grew to maturity were Elizabeth, Anna, Sarah, Jane, Mary, Maxwell, Martha, John H., and Eleanor. To John H. McCann and wife were born four children: Mary J., Emma E., Clara M. and John Arthur. Mr. McCann lived on his farm near the Muskingum river dam for four years, but in the fall of 1855 he came to Cass towhship. The winter of 1855-56 was the hardest ever known in the county. The weather was open and the ground unfrozen until New Year's day when it became suddenly cold and the thermometer registered twenty degrees below zero for about six weeks during which time the snow fell almost every day. The sleighing was excellent and lasted until the first week in April. During this winter Mr. McCann was engaged in getting out timber for his barn and other outbuildings. By hard work and good management he has added to his property until he now owns 400 acres of good land. He has held a number of minor offices in his township and proven himself a useful and progressive citizen. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church, their children being members of that church also. Their daughter Emma E. married Sylvester Mears, a farmer of the county residing near Zanesville, by whom she has one child: John Lester. J. Arthur married Blanche McDonald and by her has two children: Floyd L. and one unnamed. Clara M. married Frank Prior, a farmer of Muskingum township, and Mary J. is still at home. Archibald McCann, half-brother of John H., was a Mason of high rank. The strong democratic proclivities of the family are indicated by the preservation, for many years, of a hickory cane cut by Archibald McCann at, the grave of Andrew Jackson. Orville A. and Robert Emmet McCann belong to one of the pioneer families of Muskingum county, that now numbers among the thousands, the members of which are noted for their thrift and for their honorable and upright conduct in every walk in life. Tradition says that John McCann, about the year 1600 emigrated from Scotland and settled in the north of Ireland, in County Down, which makes the family of Scotch-Irish origin. During the tribal period in Scotland the family was united with the tribe of O'Neils for mutual protection. Thomas McCann, the great-grandfather of the subjects of this sketch, was a citizen of Belfast, and the other members of the family who are known were Alexander, Robert, George, and a sister who married Gilbert Hamilton, an ancestor of the Hamiltons, of Frazeysburg. There was also a half brother of this old Belfast family from whom the McCann's of Dresden descended. Thomas McCann was the father of six children: John, who remained in Ireland; George settled near New York city; Alexander settled at Newberg, N. Y.; James, the grandfather of Orville A. and Robert E.; Nancy Greenfield, of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Alexander who remained in Ireland. She had one son who came to America. James McCann, son of Thomas, was born in Ireland in 1763, and was there married in 1789 to Miss Elizabeth Sibbet, a daughter of Robert Sibbet, of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. McCann emigrated to America in 1794, bringing with them two sons, Thomas and Robert. Mr. McCann was a weaver by trade but first settled in Westmoreland county, Penn., on a farm. In 1815 the two sons, Thomas and Robert, then young men, came on foot through the wilderness to Ohio and with their axes began clearing a claim. They built a cabin and entered the land where Orville and Emmet McCann now live. They found a man by the name of John McCann settled on what is now the farm of Jacob Nethers, and although he was not related to them in any way, he gave up his farm to Thomas McCann and went away. The brothers returned to their home in Pennsylvania in the fall, reaching home on Christmas. The next spring James McCann and his entire family came to Ohio, by the Ohio river to Marietta, and settled on the land where the boys had built the cabin. James was the father of ten children: Thomas, Robert, Alexander, Nancy, Maxwell, Jane, George (who was drowned in Pennsylvania), George, another son, died young, Samuel and Sarah. Nearly all these children lived to be old people and their descendants now form a numerous and substantial people. James McCann gave the most of his attention to his trade, leaving the farm work to be done by his sons. He remained on the farm until the death of his wife, then went to live with his eldest son Thomas, in 1844, and died March 30, 1848, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and he usually attended the Muskingum Presbyterian church, always walking the distance even when an old man. He was naturalized by the supreme court of the state of Ohio, at Zanesville, October 28, 1828. Samuel McCann, his son, and father of the gentlemen whose names head this sketch, was born in Westmoreland county, Penn., March 10, 1807, and received a limited common-school education, the most of his education being obtained by self application. He was a man of fine mind, a great reader, and became well informed on all ordinary topics. He was brought 506 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. up in the wilderness, and his early days were spent in clearing land, and although this school was somewhat rough, it developed sterling traits of character which stood him in good stead throughout his long career. In January, 1833, he was married to Miss Caroline Irvine, the town of Irvine being named in honor of her father, who was one of the pioneers of the ,county. The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. McCann: James E., John Harvey, Isaac, William Allen, Margaret, Maxwell, Warren, Martin L., Mary (died in infancy), Orville A., Arthur and Robert Emmet. John Harvey and Maxwell McCann settled in Henry county, Mo. William Allen and Martin Luther removed to the new state of Washington and settled near the Columbia river, and Warren located near the old homestead. After his marriage Mr. McCann remained on the old home farm and here all his children were born. The family first lived in the old log house built by James and his sons, but in 1844 a residence was erected, which in those days was considered very fine. Samuel McCann was always a democrat in politics, was universally respected and his judgment held in high esteem. He was one of the earliest justices of the peace,' an office which he held to the satisfaction of the people for the long period of twenty-eight years. He dispensed justice in his township with an impartial hand; tried a great many cases and married many of the early settlers (at least 150 couples) for he was very popular among, the young people in those days. He also filled the position of township clerk and township trustee and was a member of the fifty-first general assembly of the state. He possessed much natural ability, and was a thrifty farmer and was a gentleman of the old school. He lived to the age of eighty-four years and died July 30, 1890, his wife's death occurring October 17, 1874. He had inherited a remarkably' strong constitution and during his long life was sick but little. He left seven living children, twenty-three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. His son, Orville A., was born June 7, 1853, received a common-school education and in his youth learned the details of farming. He married Miss Josephine Elder September 13, 1881, daughter of William and Sarah (McKee) Elder, and to them have been -born four children: Carrie, Florence, John H. and William I. He resides on the old homestead and is well known as a man of integrity and intelligence, and is a good representative of the McCann family, the members of which have been a practical and sturdy race of people, noted for their longevity. Dr. Henry McCreary, New Concord, Ohio, is one of the very foremost among the professional men of the county, and has won an enviable reputation as a practitioner of the "healing art." He possesses advanced ideas and progressive principles regarding his profession, and is gifted with a full share of the sterling characteristics of those of Ohio nativity. Born in Guernsey county, Ohio, on May 8, 1836, he was the youngest of seven children born to George and Sarah (Mills) McCreary, the former a native of County Downs, Ireland, and the mother of Wheeling, W. Va. George McCreary left his native country for this, in 1812, settled in the East, and was married near Wheeling, W. Va. In 1822 he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and located on a farm about four miles from New Concord. There he reared his family, consisting of five children, two having died when quite small. The others were named as follows: John, George, Jane, Elizabeth and Henry. The mother of these children died in 1847, and the father received his final summons in Guernsey county in 1872. Both were connected with the Associate Reformed church, and were classed among the best citizens of the community. He was quite a prominent man in the county in which he lived. In politics he was for many years a whig, but later he affiliated with the republican party. He was a very successful farmer. Dr. Henry McCreary's early life was passed on his father's farm, and he supplemented a common-school education, received in Guernsey county, Ohio, by a course in Muskingum college. Still later he graduated from the Starling Medical college, and then entered Jefferson Medical college, from which he also received a diploma. He first began practicing at Norwich, Muskingum county, and there remained for three years, or until 1869, when he established business in New Concord. He is numbered among the most prominent members of the medical fraternity in Muskingum county, and the success which has attended his efforts in healing the sick is shown by the extended territory over which he practices. In 1861 he enlisted in the Union army, and served three years in Company A, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, commanded by Capt. H. D. Munson, of Zanesville. He. enlisted as private and was promoted to corporal, serving one year in the field, after which, on account of ill health, he was promoted to hospital service; in which he continued the remainder of the time. Dr. McCreary selected as his companion in life Miss Samantha A. Stevenson, a native of Franklin county, Ohio, born in 1846, and their nuptials were celebrated in that county in 1875. She was the daughter of John and Mary Stevenson. She died January 22 1877, and left one child, a son, George Boone, who is now attending college. The Doctor's second marriage was to Miss Martha M. Paden, a native of the Keystone state, born in 1857, and the daughter of William and Mary A. Paden. The fruits of this union were four children: Ralph HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 507 M., Mary,. Grace G. and Helen H. Dr. McCreary and family hold membership in the United Presbyterian church, and take an active interest in all good work. The Doctor was trustee of Muskingum college for twenty-four years, treasurer twelve years, and secretary eleven years. He has ever been interested in educational matters, and served as professor of natural science in the. college for a number of years. He is interested in all enterprises for the improvement and development of the county. John McCloud, Norwich, Ohio. This old and much esteemed citizen of Muskingum county was originally from Virginia, his birth occurring in Frederick county on January 12, 1806, and he was the sixth of ten children born to Martin and Elsie (Self) McCloud, both natives of the Old Dominion, the father born in Frederick county in 1769, and the mother in 1772. The paternal grandfather was Mordikin McCloud, and the maternal William Self. Martin McCloud was married in his native county, and there six of his children were born: Samuel, Elizabeth, William, Duffy, Sarah and John. In 1809 he and family emigrated to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled on what is now the Self farm, owned by William Self. He purchased 160 acres. He came overland with a wagon and five horses, and was several weeks on the road. After locating he took a ten-year lease, erected a log cabin, and resided there for some time. There four more children were born: James, Eliza, Mitchell and Presley. The father subsequently sold the first farm and bought a larger one, on which he lived until his death in 1857. He was associated with the Methodist Episcopal church, and he it was who established that church in the neighborhood. Although not an educated man, he was possessed of an unusual amount of good, sound sense, and was a prominent man in his day. At an early day, and before the war, when there was no physician in the county, he acted in that capacity, setting broken bones and prescribing for the sick. He held many .offices of trust in the township and county, and was universally respected. He was at first a whig in his political views, but at the time of his death affiliated with the republican party. He was a prosperous farmer and owned 184 acres of well-improved land. Mrs. McCloud, who came with her parents to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1809, died on the same farm as her husband in Muskingum county, Union township, in 1852. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was deeply interested in church affairs. Their son, Samuel, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and served twelve months. The children of this family are all deceased except Presley and John (subject), both of whom reside in Union township of this county. The latter was but three years of age when he was brought by his parents to this county, and here he attained his growth. At the age of twenty-two he started out for himself, and worked one year for $100, after which he went to Zanesville, where he worked in a mill for five years. Returning to the home place he worked that for some time, but subsequently clerked, and then became a partner with Mr. Jennings in a general store. He then again returned to the home place, which he cultivated for about five years. On March 11, 1845, he married Miss Harriet E. Lloyd, a native of Portsmouth, Va., born in 1818, and to them were born four children: Alfred M., at home; Mary E., widow of Milton Geyer; Louisa, at .home, and Charles M. Mr: and Mrs. McCloud are residing on the farm which they have made by honest industry, and which is located in the western part of Union township, near the line. It consists .of '156 acres, and is managed by his two sous, who are engaged in stockraising, in connection with farming. Mr. McCloud and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he has been trustee in the same. His sons are with the republican party. He has held a number of local offices, and has filled them in a creditable manner. Presley McCloud was born in Muskingum county, Perry township, Ohio, November 15, 1817, in a house and on a farm now owned by Judge Mason, the house still standing. He was the youngest of ten children born to Martin and Elsie (Self) McCloud. He was but nine years of age when he came with his parents to Union township, and since that time he has lived in this township and in the same house a period of about sixty-four years. He attended the district schools of the county until about twenty years of age, and five years later, or in 1842, he married Miss Eliza A. Hunter, and settled on this farm. She was born in Union township, Muskingum county, July 7, 1824, and was one of .a family of nine children born to the marriage of William Hunter, who came to ,this county in 1800. The latter was a native of Ireland, and was a young man when he made his advent into this county. He was married here to Miss Isabella Henderson, who was a native of Union township, but of Irish descent. Mr. and Mrs. McCloud passed thirty-nine years together, sharing each other's burdens and trials, and in June, 1881, Mrs. McCloud was called hence. She was a member of the Presbyterian church nearly all her life. They were the parents of five children: William H., a physician at Vermilion, Edgar county, Ill.; David, a farmer of Union township; Caroline, wife of Joseph Smallwood, resides in Newark, Ohio; Robert W., a farmer at home, and Anna B., married Howard W. Jones, of Columbus, Ohio. After the marriages of his two 508 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. daughters, who had kept house for him, Mr. McCloud took for his second wife Miss Lizzie Robertson, a native of Washington township, Muskingum county, born in 1827, and the daughter of M. B. Robertson. Mrs. McCloud died three years after her marriage, in 1889, and was an active member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. McCloud also holds membership in that church, and is one of the well-known and respected citizens of the county. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for forty years, and is a third degree mason of Malta lodge 118, at Norwich. He has held office in the township for a number of years, and has been a deacon and treasurer in his church for thirty-five years. In politics he has affiliated with the democratic party all his life. Mr. McCloud's farm, consisting of 100 acres of good land, is situated one-fourth of a mile from Norwich, and is on the. Baltimore & Ohio railroad. James McClure 'is a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born in Union township, on the very farm where he now resides, April 17, 1817. He was the youngest, but one, of a family of eight children born to the union of John and Mary (Fergeson) McClure. John McClure came to Ohio at a very early date, and settled in Belmont county, where he married, and in 1816 came to Union township and settled on the farm now owned by James. This farm then consisted of 160 acres, and here he lived until his death, in 1820. He was a very prosperous farmer, and in politics a whig. Mrs. McClure was born in Pennsylvania, and died in this county in 1864. Both Mr. and Mrs. McClure were members of the Union church, but before her death Mrs. McClure joined the 'United Presbyterian church. They were the parents of the following eight children: William (died some years ago); John (now living in Indiana); Nancy (now Mrs. Moore, of New Concord); Thomas (deceased); Margaret (deceased, was the wife of James Mc-Loud, of Indiana); Mary (deceased, married George Sterall, of Rich Hill, or Blue Rock township); James (our subject), and Sarah (who married Robert Marshall, and is living in Guernsey count, Ohio. The early life of James McClure was spent on the farm where he now lives, and he was educated in the schools of this district. He started out for himself, at the age of twenty-one years, as a farmer, and has never lived anywhere except on the home farm. He was married, December 28, 1853, to Elizabeth McLand, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Burley) McLand. She was born June 14, 1824, and died May 1, 1886. She was the mother of seven children, five lived to maturity and four are yet living: Mary (died at at eleven years of age, Lizzie (who is at home), John S. (is in New Mexico), Thomas M (is work, ing on the home place), Anna (is at home), and two died in infancy. The family are members of the United Presbyterian church, of New Concord, Ohio. Mr. McClure owns a 100-acre farm where he now resides, and an eighty-acre farm in Highland township. He has been unusually successful as a farmer, and is interested in educational and church matters, and, in fact all things for the improvement and advancement of the county. He can remember when the National road was built, and when New Concord was not thought of. William McClure was born in Belmont county, Ohio, and was the eldest child of John and Mary (Fergeson) McClure. He moved to Muskingum county, with his parents when he was about six years of age, and here attended school. He was married in 1836, to Margaret Wileg, the daughter of John and Mary (Clark) Wileg. She was born in Pennsylvania and came to this county with her parents when very young. Both her parents died in Union township, this county, the father having followed farming for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. McClure were the parents of eight children : Mary, John (died at the age of twenty-two years), Robert, Nancy (died at the age of twenty-six years), Eliza (died at the age of twenty-four years), Maggie, Sarah and Martha, all married except Maggie, and all farming in Kansas. The entire family were members of the United Presbyterian church. He lived in Union township also in Highland, where he died in 1869, his wife dying in 1872. He was a republican in politics, took a great interest in all educational matters and was one of the very successful farmers of this county. His children have all been very prosperous. Boggs McDonald, Zanesville, Ohio, is a descendant of one of the prominent families of Muskingum township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, Archibald McDonald; having emigrated from Scotland to America at a period antedating the Revolutionary war in which he served as body guard for Gen. Washington. Archibald McDonald settled in Washington county, Penn., and was married to Miss Elizabeth Brownlee, of that county, becoming the father of seven children by this union: Elizabeth, Catherine, Peggy, Hammie, Christian, James and John. Mr. McDonald subsequently moved to Ohio county, W. Va., settled on a' farm, and there died at the advanced age 'of eighty-four years. He made a visit to Ohio to see his son prior to his death. His son, John McDonald, and the father of the immediate subject of this sketch, was born in Washington county, Penn., in 1795, received but a limited education, and became familiar with the duties of the farm in early boyhood. By his marriage, which occurred in Ohio county, W. Va., to Miss Margery Boggs, there were born these children: William, Elizabeth (died when a young woman), Jane, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 509 Margery, Christian, Boggs, Archibald, James and Margaret. On October 12, 1832, Mr. McDonald came to Muskingum county, Ohio, making the journey in an old-fashioned Virginia wagon drawn by four horses. He settled on the land now occupied by his son James, and bought 200 acres of Elias Ellis, paying $12 per acre for it. To this he added as years passed by until he finally .owned 800 acres of excellent land. He also owned 800 acres in Dakota. He was industrious and frugal and thus accumulated a goodly estate. He served one month as a fifer in a light horse regiment during the War of 1812. Both himself and wife, were members of the Presbyterian church, and he was one of the founders of the Muskingum Presbyterian church in this township, also assisting liberally with his means to build three churches. He was one of the charter members of the church and served as elder many years. In politics he was at one time an old line whig, but in later years was a stanch republican and a strict union man during the war. One of his sons, James, served three years in a Pennsylvania Cavalry regiment, Company C, entering August, 1862, while attending college at Washington, Penn. He participated in the battles: Antietam; Stone River; Bristol, Tenn. ; Holston River and many skirmishes. John McDonald was a well-known man in his township, and was one of the prominent and most worthy citizens of the same. His death occurred on January 21, 1879, when eighty-four years of age. His son, Boggs McDonald, the subject of this sketch, owes his nativity to Ohio county, W. Va., where his birth occurred on June 6, 1830, and was reared on his father's farm in that county, being but two years old when the latter located in Muskingum county, Ohio. He received but the common-school education of those days, and like his father and grandfather before him, chose agricultural pursuits as his occupation in life: He selected as his companion in life Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Wallace) Stevenson, the former born in County Armaugh, Ireland, in March, 1800, and of Scotch-Irish descent. Mr. Stevenson came with his parents to America in 1820. He was one of seven children: William, Mary, James, Archie, Eliza, Jane and Samuel, born to the marriage of Thomas Stevenson who was a farmer and who settled in Pennsylvania at an early date. About 1820 or 1825 the latter came to Muskingum county and settled in Union township. He and wife were members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. James Stevenson came with his parents to Union township when twenty-five years of age, and in 1824 married Miss Elizabeth Wallace, becoming the father of ten children: Thomas, Margaret, Mary Jane, Robert, William, Agnes, Elizabeth, Lora. John and Sarah. Mr. Stevenson resided in Union township until 1857, when he moved to Iowa and settled on a fine farm in Delaware county, about thirty-six miles from Dubuque. There he died in 1871, when seventy-one years of age. He and wife held membership in the Reformed Presbyterian church and he was deacon for many years. In politics he was a republican. His son, Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson, was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in Company E; Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and raising a company of which he was made captain, being chaplain of the regiment at the same time. He was a man of excellent character and was noted for his sterling worth. Another son, Robert W. Stevenson, is a noted educator, having worked himself up from the common schools. He became superintendent of the public schools of Columbus, Ohio, which position he held for eighteen consecutive years. He is now superintendent of the public schools of Wichita, Kas., and is also secretary of the National Teachers' association. After marriage Mr. McDonald settled in Muskingum township and resided for two years near the old homestead, after which he moved to his present farm in the same township. To his marriage were born six children: James H., Flora B. (who died after marriage, when twenty-six years of age), Thomas E., Robert H., John H. and Harry S. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald are connected with the Presbyterian church and Mr. McDonald has been elder for many years. In politics he is a stanch republican. He enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellowmen and has been township treasurer for four and a half years and trustee of the township for some time. He is well informed on all the current topics of the day and is a gentleman whose pleasant, genial manners, and honorable, upright conduct have won him many warm friends. His son, Thomas E., is a banker at Danbury, Neb., and is doing well. He married Miss Maud Patmore, and they have one child, Elizabeth J. Another son, Robert H., is in a hotel at Lincoln, Neb.; James H. is principal of the public schools of Negaunee, Mich. He is a graduate of the University of Wooster, Ohio, and is liberally educated. John H. has attended school at Dresden and wielded the ferule for several terms in Muskingum county. Harry S. is at home and attending school. He is a young man of excellent character. E. McDonald, merchant, and postmaster of McDonald, Ohio, one of the successful and popular business men of Muskingum county, and a much esteemed and respected citizen, was born in Salt Creek township, Muskingum county, Ohio, July 26, 1846. His parents, John and Sarah (Mershon) McDonald, were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and he was third in order of birth of four children. His paternal 510 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. grandfather was a native of Ireland but of Scotch descent. The latter crossed the ocean to America in 1806, settled in Pennsylvania, and there made his home until 1816, when he moved to Muskingum county, Ohio. There he followed agricultural pursuits and there his death occurred in 1872. E. McDonald, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the common schools, and early became familiar with the duties of the farm, his father having been a successful tiller of the soil. When twenty-one years of age he started out for himself as a school teacher, and followed this profession for seven years, when he embarked in the mercantile business. This he has continued up to the present time, and has one of the best country stores in the county. He is an energetic and honorable business man, who has gained the entire confidence of his numerous customers in all parts of the country. He was married in 1871 to Miss Martha A. Cline, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Ewing) Cline, and four interesting children are the fruits of this union. Allie, Rosa, Howard, and Harley E. Mr. McDonald has held the office of justice of the peace for twelve years, and was elected again for a term of three years. He has discharged the duties incumbent upon that office in a creditable and very satisfactory manner. In politics he affiliates with the republican party. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Sylvester McDonald is a member of one of the pioneer families of Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and is a son of George McDonald, who was born in Frederick county, Va., in ,1799, his father, Greenberry McDonald, having been born in Scotland. The latter came with his father to America and Greenberry and his brother Edward fought in the American Revolution under Gen. Marion, and were called the " young Scotchmen." Edward is mentioned in the life of Gen. Marion as a brave and gallant soldier. He had a famous horse which he called " Selim " and which he captured from a tory. Greenberry married a Miss Drum of Virginia, and by her became the father of seven children; the following of whom reached mature years: Elizabeth Elsie, Mrs. Twadel, Mr. Spenser, Berry (who went to New Orleans at an early day and there died) and George, the father of the subject of this sketch. In 1811 Greenberry McDonald came to Ohio, bringing his family with him and settled on Licking river near the falls in Muskingum county, where he lived to the advanced age of ninety-five years. He was a shoemaker by trade, and in early manhood was very powerful and became noted for his feats of strength. George McDonald came with his parents to Ohio, and after the death of his mother, which occurred shortly after their arrival in this state, he began working for the farmers of Muskingum county. He received no education, but learned to read and write, and having a naturally good mind he could make mental calculations more quickly than most men could figure. He grew up in the rough school of pioneer life and gained character among the sturdy pioneers of his day. He married Nancy Lovett, born May 6, 1796, and the daughter of Daniel and Mary (James) Lovett,' who came from Maryland in 1810 and settled in Jackson township of this county. The mother was of Welsh descent. Mr. Lovett and his wife became the parents of twelve children: John, Evan, Jonas, William, Daniel, Thomas, Nancy, Susan, Mary, Lydia, Hannah and Sarah. Daniel Lovett died a few years after he came to Ohio, and left a large family of children to be cared for by his widow. He died September 27, 1821, at the age of fifty-three years. His wife was born June 10, 1776, and died May 10, 1841. The father was a minister of the Baptist church and preached the gospel in both Maryland and Ohio. After his marriage George McDonald settled in Jefferson township, worked for some time on the Ohio canal, but in 1830 entered the farm on which Sylvester now lives, where he spent the rest of his days, dying when seventy-nine years old. hcis wife died January 16, 1884, in her eighty-eighth year. He was always hard working and industrious and became a substantial farmer. He was an active member of the Christian church, in which be was for many years treasurer and clerk, and he contributed liberally of his means to aid in its support. He built almost unaided Mount Zion church, and for many years assisted in sustaining its preachers. He was a democrat politically until the election of James Buchanan to the presidency, when he split on the slavery question. He died in 1878, having been a man of high 'Character, and it may be said of him that his word was as good as his bond. He gave his children good educational advantages, and was a believer in the nobility of labor, and taught his children not to fear work. He and his wife were the parents of 'eight children, seven boys and one girl: Labon, Evan, William, Miles, John, Sylvester. Scott' and Minerva. All lived to be grown. Sylvester McDonald was born in Cass township, this county, November 16, 1830, and when an infant of six weeks was brought by his parents to the homestead in Jackson township, where he still resides. He, like his father before him, early learned to work, and assisted in clearing off the timber from the old homestead. He received a common-school education, and on February 27, 1851; he married Emma Gist, daughter of David and Sarah (Collins) Gist, and their union resulted in the birth of thirteen children, HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 511 ten of whom lived to maturity: Minerva (died February 10, 1879); Martha (died April 2, 1877); Helen; Adolphus (died October 1, 1891); Lucy (died April 30, 1884); Labon; Elsie; Scott (died May 31, 1888); Alma, and Flora. Mrs. McDonald died May 4, 1881, and Mr. McDonald afterward married Miss Rebecca J. Drake, daughter of Thomas and Jerushie (Baughman) Drake. Mr. McDonald has always been interested in the cause of education, and for twenty-one years filled the office of school director. He is a member of Mount Zion Christian church, and has been treasurer of the same since the death of his father. From an early day the old McDonald homestead has been a home for the preachers, and its doors are always open to them. The law of hospitality has always been observed, and the stranger asking food or shelter has never been turned from the door. Mr. McDonald inherited from his parents a love of justice and good conduct, and has always lived a good and correct life. He has been one of the leaders cf his township in the furtherance of all good causes, and stands deservedly high as an honorable citizen. He is a republican politically. His daughter, Helen, married Jacob Ashcroft of this township, by whom she has five children: Wheeler, Mansfield, Robert, Tony and Belle. Labon married Amanda Moran, is a teacher in the graded schools and is the father of two children: Roy and George G. Alma married Leonard Romine and has one child, Nina. Elsie married James Baird, a blacksmith, who works in the shops at Newark. Flora is at home unmarried. Samuel McGinness is a successful farmer and stockraiser of Muskingum county, Ohio, but was born in Chester county, Penn., in 1821, to Johnson and Jane (McMullin) McGinness, natives of this country, but of Scotch-Irish descent. The father was an early settler `of Pennsylvania, belonging to one of the pioneer families of the state, and was born in 1772. In 1798, in company with a brother, he passed through this section on his way to Kentucky, following the Zane trail from Pennsylvania. After remaining in Kentucky for a short time he returned to Pennsylvania, and was there married, in 1808. In 1828 he came to Muskingum county and settled on the farm on which the subject of this sketch is now residing, where he died, in October, 1840. His second marriage was consummated in 1825, Miss Deborah Curie becoming his wife, and both his marriages were celebrated in Pennsylvania. By his first wife he became the father of seven children, only two of whom are now living: The subject of this sketch, and his sister, Mrs. James Fountain, of Henry, Ill. His second marriage was blessed in the birth of two children: Elizabeth Holcomb, of Perry county, Ohio, and a son, who was killed at Missionary Ridge, Tenn., in 1863, after having served from the commencement of the war. Major Fountain, of Illinois, his nephew, was present when he received his death wound. Samuel McGinness came with his father to this state in 1828, building a cabin in the woods, and was educated in the old log schoolhouses of pioneer days. The settlers were compelled to go many miles to mill, and sawmills were very scarce indeed. Samuel McGinness was married, in 1848, to Miss Sophia Morris, who was born in Pennsylvania in December, 1823, and came to this county in 1832. Her father settled one mile north of where Mr. McGinness now resides. His name was Thomas Morris, and his wife was Mary Everall. Of a family of five children born to them four are now living: Thomas (who resides in Iowa); Sophia (wife of Mr. McGinness); Richard (died in Illinois); Elizabeth (wife of Levi Price, resides at Bradford, Ohio), and Charles (in the employ of the I. M. Ry., in Texas. In 1865 Mr. Morris and his family removed to Illinois and settled in Tazewell county, where the father died, in 1867, and his widow, in 1885, at the ripe old age of ninety years. Mr. and Mrs. McGinness are the parents of the following children: Charles J. (deceased); Mary E. (wife of J. L. Dozer); Lizzie A. (at home); William T. (married, and a resident of Kansas); Louis H. (of this county); Alfred (married, and a resident of a farm), and Edwin at home. In 1863 Mr. McGinness was drafted into the army, but was furloughed, and afterward joined a military company known as the one hundred days' men, but was again furloughed, and received his discharge at the close of the war. Mr. McGinness was an active republican up to 1885, since which time he has been a member of the prohibition party. His first presidential vote was cast for Henry Clay, in 1844; his last, as a republican, for James G. Blaine, in 1884, and for Fisk, in 1888. During this time he has never been an office seeker, and has only served as land appraiser. He is one of the leading farmers of his section, and is the owner of a fine farm within three miles of Zanesville, on which he raises corn, wheat, hay, etc., and also some fine stock. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Zanesville, and he has always been a patron of education. In 1888 he became a member of the present Pioneer and Historical society, and has been its treasurer since its organization. He was a charter member of the first Sabbath school in District No. 1, Wayne township, which was organized in a brick house in 1834, and which was also used as a schoolhouse. This school, both literary and Sabbath, has been continued ever since, and Mr. McGinness has been in constant attendance in the Sabbath-school department. He is also a member of the county alliance, and is president of the township alliance. This is one of the pioneer families of Mus- 512 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. kingum county, and among the most highly respected. Squire Daniel McGinnis, Frazeysburg, Ohio, was born here October 20, 1830, and was the son of Samuel McGinnis and grandson of Daniel McGinnis and the great-grandson of Heinus McGinnis, who came from Ireland to America at a period antedating the Revolutionary war. He served as a soldier in that war, and was also in the French and Indian wars. He settled on a farm east of Blue Ridge, Penn., reared a large family and lived to be an old man. Daniel McGinnis, grandfather of subject, lived in Fayette county, Penn., married Miss Anna Lynch, who came from Scotland with her parents when thirteen years of age. The Lynch family was one of great prominence and wealth, and were noted manufacturers of edged tools. Her father, Robert Lynch, lived to be ninety years of age, and her mother, whose maiden name was Harriet McLeon, and who was also born in Scotland, lived to be quite old. To Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McGinnis were born seven children: George W., Hannah, Samuel, Robert, Elizabeth, Mary and Annie. Mr. McGinnis was a comfortable farmer, and took great pains to educate his children. He was born December 25, 1753, and lived to the unusual age of ninety-three. He was in the War of 1812. His wife would have rounded out one hundred full years had she lived a few months longer. Thus it can be seen that the McGinnis family is noted for its longevity. Daniel McGinnis believed that an education combined with a good trade was better for his children than money, and he encouraged them to improve their minds, and bent all his energies in that direction. He was successful, and reared a very intelligent family. He had one son, Robert, who was constable or sheriff of Franklin township for twenty-four years. His son, Samuel McGinnis, father of subject, was reared to farm labor, and, like his brothers, had good educational advantages and learned a trade, that of a tanner. He worked at this for seven years when a young man, and traveled all over the United States. During this time he taught school in Muskingum county, Ohio. In 1827 he settled down, bought land in Jackson township, Muskingum county, and was engineer, leveling the banks of the canal until 1829. On December 29 of that year he married Miss Mary Lemert, daughter of Joshua Lemert, of Coshocton county, and Mary (Wright) Lemert, both of English descent. Joshua Lemert's father, William Lemert, lived in Fauquier county, Va., and was a large slave owner. The Wright family was among the original settlers of Virginia. Joshua Lemert was the father of eight children: Elizabeth, Louis, Susan, William, Sarah, Lloyd, Mary and Nancy. In 1832 Mr. Lemert moved to Jackson township and settled on a farm. He lived to be nearly eighty-four years old, dying May 2, 1859. He was a prominent man and an extensive farmer and manufacturer. He was public spirited, and assisted in laying out many of the roads in Coshocton and Muskingum counties. He held the office of justice of the peace for some time. Samuel McGinnis became owner of about 400 acres of land, and resided on his farm, two miles north of Frazeysburg, until his death. He was one of the first school teachers in the county, and taught a subscription school in Jackson township in 1832. The schoolhouse was of logs, puncheon floor, and immense fireplace eight feet wide, and a stick chimney daubed with mud. There were thirty-five scholars, twenty of whom were grown men and women, some of them having families, but trying with honest effort to learn to read. It was the custom in those early days to bar the teacher out until he treated, and so one morning Mr. McGinnis found himself shut out and could not get in. Returning the next day, he flogged one of the big boys, who had been saucy, with a thorn bush. This severe treatment of one of their number brought on a compromise, and Mr. McGinnis agreed to treat. He brought apples from his own home, three gallons of cider and a gallon of whisky. This, mixed, was a powerful stimulant, but the school drank the most of it, some of them, it is said, showing all the signs of having had enough. The old pioneers of that day would not work without their whisky, but they seldom drank enough to intoxicate. Building cabin houses, rolling logs, railmaking, etc., was the business of the day. Samuel McGinnis died August 27, 1874, in his seventy-sixth year. Both he and wife were members of the Christian church. He filled both the offices of township clerk and treasurer, and was a very intelligent and capable business man. He could write deeds and legal business papers without forms, as he retained the forms in his mind. He was noted for his hospitality, and his house was seldom without guests. He was an excellent citizen, and is yet well remembered throughout this county. In politics he was a lifelong Jacksonian democrat. Daniel McGinnis, subject of this sketch, received a common education, and was taught the duties of the farm at an early age. On September 12, 1850, he married Miss Hannah Miller, daughter of David and Hannah (Scott) Miller, from Boyd's Mills, Fayette county, Penn. Mr. Miller's father came from Germany, and died four years after landing. The Scotts were among the original settlers of Virginia. Mr. Miller was the father of fourteen children, and was noted as an excellent farmer. After marriage Mr. McGinnis settled on a farm in Jackson township, and resided on this for fifteen years, after which he HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 513 moved to Delaware county, Iowa. Three years later he returned and settled in Jackson township, where he followed clerking and farming for twelve years, after which he came to Frazeysburg, and he has remained here since. He has been justice of the peace three terms, and is engaged in general business; in time of the war acting as clerk for E. L. Lemert. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis became the parents of thirteen children: Olivia P., Harmon K., Clarissa H., Bolton A., Van R., Beth A., Chance J., Samuel L., Etha R., Don 0., Dio S. and Zales S. Mrs. McGinnis died in 1881. She was a devout Christian, a member of the Christian church, and was a woman of noble character. August 17, 1883, Mr. McGinnis married Miss Nancy L. Marshall, and by her became the father of three children: Rill D.. Paul V. and one who died in infancy. In politics he is democratic. Mr. McGinnis has held a number of local offices—justice of the peace, township trustee, clerk, assessor and school director. He was for many years a clerk in Frazeysburg. Both he and wife hold membership in the Disciple church. He is a man of unusual intelligence, and stands high in the estimation of the people. Squire Daniel D. McGinnis, Dresden, Ohio, is numbered among the prominent farmers of Cass township, and is one of the old and respected citizens. He was born March 16, 1822, in Fayette county, Penn., and was of Scotch-Irish descent. His great-grandfather, John McGinnis, came from Ireland to the United States when quite advanced in years. He had been connected with the Irish rebellion and was obliged to leave his country. Of the thirteen children born to his marriage nine were sons, and the only ones now remembered are: John, Hymus, Samuel, Daniel, Hannah, Elizabeth and Mary. A number of the children not named settled in Baltimore, Md. Mr. McGinnis lived to be eighty-four years of age, and died near Lancaster, where he was a large land owner. He was a Scotch Presbyterian in his religious belief. His son, Daniel McGinnis, grandfather of our subject, was born in Scotland, but went to County Tyrone, Ireland, when a boy, with his brothers, John, Hymns and Samuel, and his sisters, Hannah and Elizabeth, all of whom came to America before the father and settled in Philadelphia. There they remained but a few years, and then settled on land near Lancaster, Penn. There Daniel received a good common-school education, and learning to read and talk both German and English. At an early date he settled in Fayette county, Penn., when that country was an unbroken wilderness, and the Indians were plentiful and very troublesome. Daniel was an Indian fighter and had many desperate encounters with them. While working he always had his rifle near him, and often left his work to chase them when they were more troublesome than usual. The settlers, when attacked, or threatened with an attack, would seek shelter in a block house (called the Three Cabins Block House), and at one time they remained there all winter. They were attacked several times by the savages, but succeeded in repulsing them, and the Indians revenged themselves by driving off the stock and burning the cabins. In the spring the troops, under Col. Dunbar or Col. Mountz, came to their relief, and the Indians were driven from the country. Daniel McGinnis' sister, Hannah, was in the Block House, and being an unusually strong woman, could handle a rifle as well as a man, and took a prominent part in driving off the Indians in the attack on the Block House, rendering valuable assistance in that way. She was a fearless horseback rider, and could mount a horse bareback without assistance, springing from the ground. She was a noted frontier character and married Samuel Crozier. She could do a man's work, and her husband became a successful and prosperous farmer. After his death she carried on the farm with great vigor. Daniel McGinnis married Annie Lynch, daughter of Robert Lynch, and to them were born George, Samuel, Robert, Mary, Hannah and Elizabeth. Mr. McGinnis served in the War of 1812, as did also his brothers, Hymns and John. He was large and strong, and was an artilleryman. He was pushing the gun to get it in position to load, when a cannon from the enemy struck the gun carriage, demolished it and threw it upon Mr. McGinnis, who remained senseless until the next morning, when he was brought to consciousness by the rain in his face. He was in the hospital for some time, and for nearly a year he was disabled. He was crippled for life, did not again enter the service, and received a pension from the government. He became a farmer, was hardworking and industrious, and was the owner of 300 acres of land. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, was respected and esteemed by all, and lived to be ninety-four years of age, retaining his mental faculties to the last. His son, George McGinnis, father of subject, was a native of Fayette county, Penn., born on the old homestead on January 28, 1797. This property is still held by the McGinnises. George McGinnis' educational advantages were very good, for he had an excellent teacher, a Mr. Paxton, who was educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and who taught a subscription school near Daniel McGinnis' for twenty-one years in the same building. George McGinnis learned readily, and thus became a well educated man. He was married on January 5, 1821, in Fayette county, to Miss Mary Wood, who was born May 3, 1805, who was the daughter of Abinah and Susannah (Humphrey) Wood, the former an American 514 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. of English Irish descent. Mr. Wood was an only ,child, and served through the Revolutionary war, being in several of the prominent battles. He became a soldier at the early age of fourteen, and was away from his parents seven years. His father had been to .Camden, and there learned that Washington was in need of men. Returning home. during the night he and his wife talked the matter over, and decided that their boy would better go. How to provide clothing for him was the question, for he had but one suit of homemade linen. With the help of neighbor women they wove enough for a new suit, and made it the next day. Abinah, although: but fourteen years of age, was a large, strong, bony youth, almost as strong as a man, and provided with his new suit and a linen knapsack, he started out the next day. On the way to the camp he met a neighbor boy of about the same age (Sam Bunton), and he was joined by the latter, who had nothing with him but the homespun suit he had on. Abinah gave him his new suit and they proceeded to camp. They served together seven years and became fast friends. Sam Bunton never married, but made his home with Mr. Wood until his death. When Abinah reached home,.after seven years' service, he was not recognized by his mother, who had not heard from him during the entire time. He was a shipbuilder and carpenter by trade, and followed the same in Pittsburg, during the latter part of his life. He was comfortably well off, and lived to be ninety-six years of age, attending his business up to the last day of his life. He died suddenly after dinner, having worked during that forenoon. He had never lost a week from work. Mr. Wood was a member of the Methodist church, and was a class-leader in the same. Of the thirteen children born to this marriage several are settled in Pittsburg. After his marriage George McGinnis settled in Tyrone township, Fayette county, Penn., followed farming and boatbuilding, and here passed the closing scenes of his life, dying when seventy years of age. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife held membership in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, respectively. His children were: Daniel D., Abinah W., Susannah, Samuel H., Jonathan, Hannah, Burris, Elizabeth, Robert, Ellen, Mary J. and John. Mr. McGinnis was a man of moderate means, and his integrity and uprightness of character were never questioned. His son, and the subject of this sketch, Daniel D. McGinnis, secured a good common-school education in his native county, and learned the cooper's trade and boatbuilding. In 1844 he came to Ohio, resided at Frazeysburg one year, and was then married to Miss Maria Morgan, daughter of James and Susannah (Lovett) Morgan. Her father was one of the first settlers of Jackson township, locating there in 1805, and became one of the substantial farmers. He owned 600 acres of land in this county and 240 acres in Indiana, and gave his children all good farms. His death occurred when he was seventy-six years of age. He held a number of local offices, and was a prominent man. Of the eleven children born to his marriage the following lived to be grown: Eva L., Washington, Maria, Martha J., Mary E. and La Fayette. Mr. Morgan was a member of the Old School Baptist church, and a man of high moral character. He was a soldier, under Col. Cass, in the War of 1812, but as there were more men than were needed he received his discharge. After marriage Mr. McGinnis settled on the farm where he now lives, and now has 160 acres of excellent land. His marriage was blessed by the birth of five living children: James M., George W., Mary E., John S. and Tir zah. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis are active members of the Disciple church, and he has been elder for many years. In politics he is a strong democrat. Mr. McGinnis has held the office of justice of the peace for eighteen years, has been assessor of chattels two terms, township trustee three terms, township clerk sixteen years, and real estate assessor two terms. He is also interested in educational matters and served on the school board many years. When single he taught school for seven years in his native state and in Cass township, and was an able and successful educator. Squire McGinnis stands deservedly high as an honorable and respected man. Thomas A. McGlade, farmer, Dresden, Ohio, comes of old Virginia stock, and inherited from leis ancestors those sterling traits of character which have made him so successful. His grandfather, John McGlade, was a native of the Old Dominion, and early in the nineteenth century he moved to Ohio. He first settled near Dillon's Falls, resided there for a -few years, and then moved to Muskingum township, settling on a farm now occupied by James McGlade, his youngest son. He owned 200 acres, all in the woods when he first settled on it, and this, with the help of his sons, he cleared and got under cultivation. By his marriage Mr. McGlade became the father of the following children: William, David, John, George, Thomas, James, Betsey, Jane and Elizabeth. Mr. McGlade was a useful and much esteemed pioneer settler, and lived to a good old age. He and wife were members of the Covenanter church. His son, John McGlade, and the father of Thomas A. McGlade, was also a native of Virginia, and was but a boy when he came with his father to Muskingum county. He learned the trade of a wheelwright, and worked at this in Zanesville for some time, assisting in building Drones' HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 515 mill at that place and another at Dillon's Falls. He married Miss Margaret Welsh, daughter of James Welsh, whose ancestors were pioneers of Muskingum county. Shortly after marriage Mr. McGlade located on the farm now occupied by his son, Thomas A., and there he passed the remainder of his days. He owned 167 acres of land, was a good, substantial farmer, and an honorable, upright citizen. His death occurred December 31, 1880, when seventy-three years of age. He was a democrat in politics, and held the office of township trustee for some time. His wife, who was a member of the Covenanter church, died in 1889, when seventy-three years of age. Thomas A. McGlade, son of this worthy couple, was born on the farm where he now lives, in Muskingum county, on December 15, 1841, and received his scholastic training in the common schools. He selected as his companion in life Miss Martha A. McCammon, daughter of James and Martha (Wylie) McCammon, and their nuptials were celebrated on August 7, 1868. Both families, the McCammons and the Wylies, were of Irish descent and early settlers of this county. Mr. and Mrs. McGlade's union was blessed by the birth of six children: Adella O., Wilbert J., M. Estella, Addison, Thomas E. (died in infancy), and Mettle H. Mrs. McGlade and her two daughters, Ora A. and Margaret E., .are members of the Covenanter church. In politics Mr. McGlade is a strict democrat. He is a substantial farmer, an honest man and a good citizen. James M. McHenry, attorney at law, whose name heads this sketch has that ease of manner and force of character which make the sons of the "Buckeye state" influential wherever they go. He is well read in his profession, has conducted many important cases to a successful issue in all the courts, and his continued rise is assured and well deserved. He was born in Meigs township, this county, November 27, 1861, to John and Lydia (Trainer) McHenry; the father's birth occurring in the same county, in 1837. He is now a resident of Harrison township, this county, and is successfully engaged in tilling the soil and in dealing in. stock. His father, who also bore the name of John, was a Pennsylvanian by birth and first saw the light of day on January 19, 1800. In 1834 he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and until his death in 1884 he was, a resident of Meigs township. The mother of the subject of this sketch was born September 13, 1842, in Meigs township, this county, being a daughter of J ohn and Lydia Trainer, who came to this county early in the thirties. .James M. McHenry is the eldest of four children and was brought up to till the soil. His initiatory training was received in the common schools; when he was seventeen years of age he began teaching. At the end of one year he discontinued this occupation to enter Muskingum college, in which institution he remained until 1884, his vacations being spent in teaching in order to defray, in a measure, his expenses while obtaining an education. In 1885 he entered the law office of judge E. E. Evans as a student, and in October, 1887, was admitted to the bar, after which he at once formed a partnership with his preceptor under the firm name of Evans & McHenry. He is a general practitioner, and has saved many the expense of going into open court by adjusting their differences in a fair and wise manner. Although still young in years he has already a widespread reputation and gives every promise of becoming eminent in his profession. He is interested in local politics, is a democrat, and has been chairman of the democratic central committee of the county. Miss Louise S. Carter, who was born in this county, became his wife in January, 1889. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian church. He is a member of Anchor lodge No. 283, of the F. & A. M. and Phoenix lodge No. 288, of the K. of P. For many years, or since his location in this county, the reputation which William McIntire, High Hill, Ohio, has enjoyed, has been not only that of a substantial and progressive farmer, but of an intelligent and well posted man on all public affairs. He was born in Brooke county, W. Va., in September, 1819, and is a son of John and Charlotte (Leisure) McIntire, both of Scotch origin. William McIntire came to Ohio in the year 1822 with his . parents. He remained at home until 1839, when he purchased eighty acres of land in Meigs township, Muskingum county, where he has since resided. To the original tract he added from time to time, as his means allowed, 240 acres, and is now the owner of 160 acres, all well cultivated and well improved. The other 160 acres of this land he deeded to his sons, Isaac and George H. He is wide awake and enterprising and by his able management has accumulated a comfortable competency. On January 13, 1839, he was united in marriage, to Miss Elizabeth Herron, daughter of John and Jane Herron, and the fruits of this union were seven children, all living but two: John (deceased), Isaac, Mercy J., William (deceased), Charlotte A., George H. and Albert P. Mr. McIntire has held many local positions and has filled all in a very satisfactory and capable manner. He was trustee for a number of years and discharged the duties incumbent upon the office of justice of the peace for eighteen years. In politics he advocates the principles of the democratic party. Prof. John D. H. McKinley, Dresden, Ohio, a distant relative of the distinguished and greatest protectionist of this or any other age, was born in Washington county, Md., in 1850, and is a son of 516 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY Nelson and Mary A. (Hart) McKinley. He came to the Buckeye state in 1867, and attended Kenyon college at Gambier from which institution he was graduated in 1872. From that date until 1873 he was principal of Harcourt Place school, Gambier, and from 1873 to 1875 he read law at Franklin, Penn. From 1875 until 1882 he was again principal of Harcourt Place school. Prof. McKinley came to Muskingum county in 1882 and here he has since made his home. In 1883 he embarked in the real estate business in Columbus, Ohio, and this he continues at the present time. Since 1.884 he has been professor of Latin and mathematics in Miss Phelps' English and Classical school for young ladies of Columbus. In 1880 he married Miss Fannie E. Cox, of near Dresden, Ohio, and their union has been blessed by the birth of two interesting children: Mary A. and Emma E. Prof. McKinley is a prominent educator, a man of excellent business acumen, and one of the county's foremost citizens in all enterprises of a laudable nature. In politics he advocates the principles of the republican party. A. very prominent representative of the business men of New Concord is to be found in William W. McKinney, who by his honorable and upright conduct has won many firm friends in both commercial and social circles. Mr. McKinney has been engaged in business since 1863, and deals exclusively in hardware and groceries, carrying a large stock and doing an extensive business. He was born in New Concord, Ohio, in 1849, and was the eldest of six children born to Joseph and Margaret (Dennis) McKinney. Joseph McKinney was also a native of this township and county, and was born within a mile of New Concord, June 10, 1827. He grew to manhood in that town, and followed merchandising and blacksmithing up to 1861, when he enlisted in Company A, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and ranked as sergeant of that company. He was in service about two years and three months, and was in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, and numerous skirmishes. He was captured at Stone River and confined in Libby prison for a month, when he was exchanged. He then joined his regiment, and took part in the battle of Liberty Gap, Tenn., where he lost his right leg on June 24, 1863. This ended his military career. Returning to New Concord he resumed mercandising and was appointed postmaster, holding that position for eighteen years prior to his death, which occurred in 1883. He was a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was class-leader in the same for many years. He was active in politics, and advocated the principles of the republican party. In all educational matters he was deeply interested, and he was a member of the board of trustees of the Muskingum college, being an active member of the same when the college was building. About 1847 he was married in his native town to Miss Margaret Dennis, a native of Trenton, N. J., born in the year 1829. To this union were born five children, who are named in the order of their births, as follows: William W. (subject), Zimenia (wife of John W. Hedges, of North Vernon, Ind.), Frank (a resident of Zanesville), Joseph H. (a resident of Cambridge), and Maggie (wife of James Hedges, and now resides in Muskingum county, Ohio). The mother of these children died in January, 1874. She was a worthy and exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal church. After her death, or in 1876, Mr. McKinney married Mrs. Sarah A. Bailey, and to them was born one child, Louis, who is now in New Concord. Joseph McKinney was one of eight children born to Joseph Sr. and Elizabeth (Storer) McKinney, the former one o£ the early settlers of New Concord, and the first postmaster of that town. He was originally from the Keystone state. William W. McKinney is a native of New Concord, Ohio, where he was born in 1849. After completing his school days, and when but twelve and a half years of age, he entered the Union army as a drummer boy in 1861, serving with credit and distinction in Company A, Fifteenth regiment, O. V. V. I., and acted in that capacity for two years. He was then promoted to orderly for Maj.-G en. T. J. Wood, commanding Third division, Fourth Army Corps, serving until the winter of 1864, when he received his honorable discharge, and returning to civil life after an experience of over three years, which was full of incidents, and if drawn by the pencil of the painter would present thrilling features of war and carnage, of march and camp life. Mr. McKinney was the youngest soldier from Ohio. Some of the prominent engagements in which he participated were: Shiloh, Stone River, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and the Atlanta campaign. Although young in years Mr. McKinney served his country faithfully and creditably, and was ever ready for duty. He received his discharge at Chattanooga, Tenn. Returning to New Concord he embarked in merchandising with his father, and remained with him until the latter's death in 1883, In 1873 he was united in marriage to Miss M. M. Spear, a native of New Concord, born in 1849, and the daughter of Alexander and Mary Spear, who were among the oldest settlers of this part of the county. Mrs. McKinney died in June, 1882, leaving a daughter, Rose M., who is attending school. In 1884 Mr. McKinney took for his second wife Miss Anna M. Lindsey, a native of Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio, born in 1855, and the daughter of James Lindsey. The result of this union was the birth of one child, a son, Otho L. HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 517 Mr. and Mrs. McKinney are members of the United Presbyterian church, and he has been treasurer of the same for the last ten years. He has also been treasurer of the town for the same length of time, and treasurer of the school district. Mr. McKinney is one of the county's most esteemed and honored citizens, and has held a number of local offices of trust. In politics he casts his vote with the republican party. Thomas McLees was born, November 12, 1823, in a log cabin on what is now known as Blossom farm, Blue Rock township, Muskingum county, Ohio. His father, Joseph McLees, was born, October 24, 1778, in County Antrim, Ireland. Thomas McLees, the father of Joseph McLees, died about 1799 in Ireland, and his wife, Sarah Hunter Mc-Lees, came to the United States, in 1801, with four children—two sons and two daughters: Thomas, Joseph, Agnes and Mary, and landed at Newcastle, Del. One son, William, had preceded them, and Samuel and Rachel died in Ireland. Thomas and William never married; Agnes married Gabriel Blair, and Mary married Thomas Snyder. The parents were natives of the Highlands of Scotland, but married in Ireland and there reared their entire family, the youngest, Agnes and Mary, being twenty-one and nineteen years of age, respectively, when they came to this country. Joseph McLees was twenty-three years of age when he came to this country with his mother. He lived in Delaware two years, and then removed to Westmoreland county, Penn., where he remained fifteen years, then coming to Muskingum county,Ohio, he settled in Blue Rock township, on what is now known as Blossom farm. Government land was then selling at $2 per acre, payable in four annual payments, without interest, but before the last payment was due the price had dropped to $1.25 per acre. At that time, March 15, 1818, there was not a stick amiss, and the brush had to be cut to allow the wagon to pass. He cut a trail almost to the top of the hill, there halted, and commenced to clear the ground and build a cabin, 16x18 feet, of round logs. A great hole was cut out for a fire place and another in the side, for a door, a quilt answering the purpose of the door. A large poplar puncheon served as a table. A. split rail and holes bored in the walls served as bed posts, forming a bed, 4x6 feet, in the corner of the house, and another in another corner, made in the same style. The mother kept house for her two sons, Joseph and William. Later, William bought a quarter section of land in Blue Rock township, where he built a cabin and lived there seven or eight years all alone, dying in 1827. The mother died in 1826, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years, and they both were buried on Blossom farm. Thomas had died in Delaware, soon after coming to this country. The McLees and Hunters wet e Presbyterians as far back as is known, and the grandfather of Thomas McLees, of Scotland, used to wear his sword to church to defend himself. They were known as Mountain men, and on Grandmother Hunter's side of the family were large, broad-shouldered, muscular men who never gave nor took an insult. The following will illustrate the same: Uncle John Hunter, as he was called, was at a fair given on Lamas day, when he saw a prize fighter abusing an old man. He immediately stepped up to the bully and said: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, to abuse an old man." At this the man became very angry and struck at him; but Uncle John was too quick for him, and felled him to the ground. This settled the fight. The same trait of character follows in the entire family. They love fair play and always sympathize with the abused one. When Joseph McLees moved to this township, in 1818, neighbors were very few: Benjamin Lee was one mile east; John Gibbons Sr., two miles north; Andrew Dixon, three miles west; and David Mitchell and Archibald Bowls four miles southeast, and Hyatts and Carlins, in Morgan county, five or six miles away. It was quite common in those days for neighbors to go six miles to assist in building a cabin, and as they generally came at sunrise, it was without their breakfast. Half their time was taken up assisting their neighbors. March 15, 1821, Joseph McLees, the father of Thomas, married Miss Hannah Morrison, youngest daughter of Capt. Samuel Morrison, of Washington county, Penn. Capt. Morrison was in the volunteer service of his native state, Pennsylvania, in the W ar of 1812-14. He reared a family of nine children—five sons and four daughters, and their ancestors were also natives of the Highlands of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. McLees reared a family of two sons and six daughters: Thomas (our subject), John Morrison, Sarah Hunter, Mary L., Margaret M., Agnes, Hannah and Rachel, all living except Margaret M., who died in October, 1863. The father died December 26, 1848, and the mother in September, 1863. The early settlers of this county had many privations, and often the mother has spoken of the time when she picked and burned brush at night, which they used for light. Still they were light hearted, worked with a will, and were very successful. Thomas McLees received a common-school education in the subscription schools of that day. The salary of the school teachers at that time was about $10 per month; $1.50 a scholar, and twenty to twenty-four scholars was considered a good school. The branches taught in these schools were reading, writing and arithmetic as far as the rule of three, and a school term three months. The first schoolhouse was built on the land owned by Frederick Wion. Thomas McLees first attended 518 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. school at the Blue Rock Baptist church in 1832, six weeks being the length of a term, and his teacher was Jeremiah Argo. Later he attended the school on Starrett's farm. John Darr was the teacher; he received $100 per year for his services and boarded around among the scholars, remaining a week at each place. This was in 1833 and 1834. A new schoolhouse was built on lands owned by John Grandstaff, about one-half mile from the old one. Thomas McLees stopped school at the age of seventeen years, and in his studies was always at the head of his class, mathematics being his favorite study. When twenty-three years of age, in 1846, he removed to Perry county, Ohio, and lived there four years, taught three .terms of school, and in 1850, after the death of his father, returned to his native home and bought Blossom farm. Here he lived and owned the same until 1891, when he sold it to his son, James R. S. This farm has been owned by McLees for over seventy-four years. August 27, 1844, Thomas McLees married Miss Elizabeth Starrett, and nine children blessed this union—five sons and four daughters—seven living at the present time, June 1, 1892. In June, 1855, Mr. McLees was a delegate to the, American convention which met at Cleveland and nominated S. P. Chase for governor and Thomas H. Ford, lieutenant governor. In February, 1856, he was duly elected delegate to the national council and nominating convention which met in the city of Philadelphia and nominated Fillmore and Donelson. He, with fifty-seven others — anti-slavery Americans—left the convention and on May 31, 1856, helped lay the foundation of the present republican party. Mr. McLees shaved his face smooth and made a promise that he would not shave again until Fremont was elected. Fremont was never elected, neither has he shaved. Mr. McLees has been known as an outspoken anti-slavery man, and served in the Morgan raid five days under Capt. N. F. Claypool. He was mustered out, received his pay, and entered the 0. N. G., Ninety-first battalion. On May 2, 1864, he and his two sons reported at Zanesville, Ohio. He and the eldest son, Josiah, were mustered into the service of the United States army, in Company I, One Hundred and Sixtieth regiment, Capt. Henry S. Finley, under Gen. Franz Seigel. This regiment was placed in the First brigade First division of Gen. Hunter's army of West Virginia. On the night of July 3, 1864, they retreated from Martinsburg, W. Va., marched through the Potomac river and lay on the banks of the canal in wet clothes. On July 5 they went on to Maryland Heights at 11 o'clock P. m., Gen. Early in his raid following, and the fight began July 6. On July 7, 1864, Josiah McLees was in line of battle between Sharpsburg road and the Potomac river, and at 10 A. M. was mortally wounded, dying July 20. On September 7, 1864, Thomas McLees was mustered out of service. April, 1866, he was elected assessor, and assessed the property in Blue Rock, made his returns in twenty-six days, and was reelected for the office in 1867 and 1868. In 1886 he was elected school treasurer, took the books out of chaos, held the office six years in succession, settled annually, and returned the books in good shape to his successor. In 1866 he was the first commander of the G. A. R. organized in Blue Rock township; was a charter member in Hazlett post No. 81, Zanesville, Ohio. In 1887 Mr. McLees withdrew and joined Dan Brown post No. 380, Duncan's Falls, Ohio, has held the office of commander, was twice delegate to department, also elected surgeon, and is at this time chaplain. He is also a member of P. 0. S. of A., and has been admitted in Sons of Veteran camp, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. McLees was raised a Henry Clay whig, first voted for Zachary Taylor for president in 1848, and has never missed a spring or fall election. Mr. McLees has been twice married. With his first wife he lived over twenty-four years, and with the second twenty-one years. He has been a member of the Presbyterian church forty-eight years, and by the grace of God, expects to live and die in that church. Mr. McLees bought a house in the Eighth ward, Zanesville, Ohio, and expects to make this his permanent residence. He is one of the prominent citizens of the county, progressive, enterprising and energetic. Divver McMillen was once one of the prominent tillers of the soil in Perry township, Muskingum county, for many years, but he has been a resident of the town of Norwich for the past ten years. He was born in Highland township, two miles north of Norwich, on July 22, 1825, and was the eldest son and fifth child born to James and Elizabeth (Pringle) McMillen, and the grandson of James and Jane (Bell) McMillen, natives of Washington county, Penn. The McMillen family is of Scotch descent, the great-grandfather being a native of that country. The latter emigrated to the United States in the early part of the eighteenth century, settled in Washington county, Penn., and reared a large family of children. He died in the Keystone state. His son, James Sr., grandfather of subject, was born in that county in 1758, and was married to Miss Jane Bell, who bore him nine children: Andrew, George, James, Isaac, Divver, William (who died young), William, Theodosia and Mary. The father of these children died in Wayne township, Muskingum county, in 1821, and his wife received her final summons in that township in 1847. They settled in that township about 1810, and Mr. McMillen cultivated the soil and there reared his family. Of the children HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 519 Isaac, Divver, William and James settled in this county. The latter was born in Washington county, Penn., in 1794, but when six years of age came to Ohio with his parents. He was married in 1817 to Miss Elizabeth Pringle and to them fourteen children were born: Theodosia, who died at the age of fifty-four years and left ten children; Margaret died at the age of sixty-nine years and left five children; Jane died when forty-six years of age; Elizabeth resides in Iowa and is the mother of one child; Divver (subject); Penina, who died at the age of six years; Job married and reared five children. He was a farmer and died in Jackson county, Ohio, in 1878; William is a farmer in Union township and the father of four children; Martha resides in Hardin county, this state, and is the mother of five children; Susan resides in Hardin county and has two children; George W. is also a resident of Hardin county and the father of six children. He served three years in the late unpleasantness .between the North and the South; Jefferson was a soldier in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry and was killed at in 1863. He entered as a private and on the day he was shot mustered his command as first lieutenant; Mary died at the age of ten years, and John, who is now residing in Perry township, this county, and is the father of six children. He was in the 100 days' service. George W., who was mentioned before, was an inmate of Andersonville and Libby prisons for nine months and suffered much during that time. The father of these children, James McMillen, was married in Wayne township, and the farm he first cultivated is the site of the thriving town of Norwich. He moved to Highland township in 1825 and settled on a farm owned by his wife. There he remained for fifty-one years. He died in March, 1876. He was a prosperous farmer and accumulated a handsome property. He was a member of the M. E. church and although at first a whig in politics, he at last affiliated with the republican party. His wife, Elizabeth (Pringle) McMillen, was born in Loudoun county, Va., in 1798, and was the daughter of Henry and Mary (Trumbo) Pringle. Her parents came to this county in 1810 and settled in Wayne township, near Zanesville, where they made their home for many years. The father died in 1823 at the age of fifty-two years. He was a wheelwright by trade but also carried on farming. In his religious views he was an Old School. Baptist and for many years was a minister of the Salt Creek Baptist church of the county. His wife died in Wayne township when eighty-seven years of age. She was the mother of ten children, viz.: Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, Belinda, William, Penina, Ada Ida, Jedediah, George W. and John. .None are now living. Mrs. McMillen, who was the second of these children, died May 1, 1875. She held membership in the M. E. church and was deeply interested in religious matters. James McMillen and wife both died in Highland township after a companionship of fifty-eight years. Divver McMillen received his education in the subscription schools of his day and from 1847 to 1863 wielded the ferule in the schools of that township. He was first married in 1851 to Miss Sarah J. Hogan, a native of Perry township, Muskingum county, Ohio, born December 2, 1829, and the daughter of Richard H. and Frances (Decker) Hogan. The Hogan family came originally from Loudoun county, Va., and were early settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. McMillen seven children were born five now living: Clotilda, Frances, Alice, George O. and Job W. The three eldest married. Clotilda married John Wilson and became the mother of two children: Etta J. and Elmer D. She and family now reside in Highland township. Frances mar ried J. M. Goodhart, of Zanesville, and they have one child, Homer. Alice, married James Radcliff and is now residing in Perry township. They have three children: Flora, George and Walter. George and Job are at home. Mr. McMillen's first wife died at the age of thirty-eight years in 1868. She was a kind wife and mother and a worthy member of the M. E. church. June 19, 1869, Mr. McMil-. len wedded Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, a native of Washington county, Penn., born March 15, 1838, and the daughter of William and Eliza (Boyd) Stevenson, both natives of the same county. The father died in Pennsylvania over thirty years ago but the mother is still living and is eighty-eight years of age. Mrs. McMillen was one of seven children, three daughters and four sons: Boyd, Margaret. William, Elizabeth, Samuel, Agnes and Alfred. Mr. McMillen's second marriage resulted in the birth of two children: Bell and Hattie C., both at home. Mr. McMillen lost his second wife in September, 1890. She was also interested in religious work and was an affectionate mother and wife. After his first marriage Mr. McMillen resided in Jackson, Ohio, for thirteen years and then moved to Perry township, this county, where he bought a farm of 160 acres which is still owned by him. He is a democrat, is interested in politics and has held the office of trustee of the township, Mr. McMillen is a self-made man and has, in addition to his farm in the country, a fine residence in Norwich. He spent about sixteen years of his life as an educator and has taken much pains with the schooling of his children. Among the many agriculturists of prominence in Muskingum county, Ohio, William McNaught, Frazeysburg, takes a leading place. He is of Scotch-Irish descent, his great grandfather having emi- 520 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. grated from Scotland to Ireland when he married. William McNaught's father, Johnson McNaught, was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and followed the life of a farmer. He married in his native country Miss Mary A. Stevenson, and their children, ten in number, were born on the Emerald Isle. They were named as follows: Sallie (died in Ireland in infancy), Eliza J., Isabel, Alexander (died in Ireland then three years of age), William, Johnson, Samuel, Daniel, Thomas (died in America at the age of twelve), and one who died in infancy in Ireland. In 1846 Mr. Johnson McNaught came to America, and the next year sent for his family. He settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, resided there fifteen years, and then moved to the farm now occupied by Samuel McNaught, his son. There he passed the remainder of his days, dying at the age of seventy-two. He held membership in the Presbyterian church, and was a liberal contributor to the same. In politics a stanch republican; he was a strong union man during the Civil war, and sent three of his sons to fight in defense of their country: William (subject), Johnson and Samuel. Johnson was in the famous Ninety-seventh regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, Company F, and was in all the battles of that regiment until he was killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge. Samuel enlisted May 19, 1864, in Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served three months. Johnson McNaught (father of our subject) was an industrious, law-abiding citizen, and brought up his children to be honorable, upright citizens. William McNaught was born in County Donegal, Ireland, September 30, 1836, was educated in his native country until eleven years of age, and then came with his mother to America. He at once began assisting his father on the farm, and on September 3, 1863, was united in marriage to Miss Mary N. Baker, who was born April 5, 1845, and who was the daughter of William H. and Sarah A. (Walker) Baker. William Baker was a native of New Jersey, and came to Muskingum county, Ohio, when twenty-one years of age, settling in Dresden. He was a blacksmith by trade. He was married in Dresden, and became the father of five children: Helen, Mary M., Anna A., Albert A. and Jerome W. Mr. Baker was for some time engaged in merchandising in Dresden, and served as constable. He died at the age of sixty years. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a man of high character. He was well educated, but was naturally intelligent. His father was killed in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Baker's wife, Sarah A. (Walker) Baker, was a descendant of John Barron, on the maternal side. Mr. Barron was an old pioneer from Ireland, and settled in Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by Sylvester McDonald, at a very early day. When a young man he taught school in a log house on this farm, and this house has since served as a residence and a sheep house, and now stands on the farm of William McNaught. John Barron moved to Dresden and there died at the age of ninety-seven. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church many years. To Mr. and Mrs. McNaught were born thirteen children: Anna M. (died at ten years), William J., Carrie B., Fannie, Maggie (died at the age of three years), Helen E. (died at the age of one year), Elmer, Lizzie D., Blanche, Samuel P., Jerome E., Myrtle and Otto (died in infancy). After marriage Mr. McNaught settled in Coshocton county, and on September 30, 1864, enlisted in Company F, Seventy-eighth regiment, Volunteer infantry, and was in the battles of Atlanta, Buford and , S. C. He was severely injured by falling off a bridge January, 1864, and was in the hospital at Buford, S. C., for a short time. After this he was at Fort Schuyler eight weeks and then joined his regiment at Goldsboro, N. C., fighting until the close of the war. He was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., May 30, 1865, and was present and marched in the grand review. Upon returning home he bought the farm where he now lives. He and Mrs. McNaught are worthy and exemplary members of the Presbyterian church, and Mr. McNaught has been an elder for fifteen years. In politics he affiliates with the republican party. His daughter Carrie married Rev. James A. Leggett, a Presbyterian minister now filling the pulpit at Kingston, Ind. Mr. McNaught has ever been a hard-working man, but has been disabled for years from injuries received during the war. He is strictly temperate, and is honorable and upright. He erected a fine residence, but this was destroyed by fire, and he has since built another, a comfortable two-story residence. He has been ably assisted by his capable and faithful wife in rearing the large family, and they have given their children the best educational advantages. William McVey, dealer in furniture and household decorations, New Concord, Ohio. Mr. McVey was born in Rich Hill township, Muskingum county, Ohio, August 1, 1837, and was the eldest living child born to George and Jane (Given) McVey, both natives of Washington county, Penn., born in 1805 and 1807, respectively. Our subject's paternal grandparents, Enoch and Elizabeth (Lyons) McVey, were also natives of the Keystone state, born in Mifflin county. George McVey's early life was spent on a farm in Pennsylvania, and when eleven years of age he came with his parents to Muskingum county and settled with them in Rich Hill township. In 1826 he built a flatboat and made a trip to New Orleans, taking a load of HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 521 flour for general trading. In 1834 he married Miss Given, and reared eight children, only five reaching mature years: William, Jane E. (residing in Kansas), Rachel M. (now Mrs. McCutcheon), Rev. Hugh G. (a minister of the United Presbyterian church at New Wilmington, Penn.,) and David E. (married, is a farmer and dealer in windmills at Sterling, Kas.). George McVey was a wide-awake and enterprising farmer, and accumulated a good property. He was a self-made man and a public spirited citizen. His death occurred on the farm where he had resided for fifty years, April 19, 1885, when eighty-one years of age. He held membership in the United Presbyterian church for over fifty years, and was an active worker in educational and religious enterprises. In early life he was a democrat, but later he became a republican, and was one of the ardent supporters of that party. He held a number of offices of trust in his county, and was well and favorably known all over the same. Mrs. McVey was also a member of the United Presbyterian church the greater part of her life, and died in Rich Hill township, this county, about 1874. She was the daughter of David and Jane (Langan) Given, who settled in Muskingum county about 1815. About 1825 two of her brothers were struck by lightning and killed while flaying wheat in a barn. Her parents died in this township, the mother when about ninety-eight or ninety-nine years of age. William McVey's boyhood days were passed on the farm where he first saw the light of day, and he remained under the parental roof until twenty-five years of age. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company H., One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer infantry, Second brigade, Third division, Sixth Army Corps, under Gen. Grant, and participated in a great many engagements, the following being the most important: Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Winchester, Cedar Creek and Petersburg. He was in twenty-six battles and served three years, and during that time was only absent on a twenty-days' furlough. He was neither wounded nor taken prisoner. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged at Washington City, and then returned to Rich Hill township, where, on May 17, 1866, he was married to Miss Rachel J. Pollock, daughter of Samuel and Louisa (Miller) Pollock, and a native of Muskingum county, born November 21, 1843. Her parents are still living, and have been married over fifty years, having celebrated their golden wedding not long ago. Mrs. McVey was now the eldest of eleven children, eight of whom are now living, and named in the order of their births as follows: Abraham M.(who was killed at the battle of Spottsylvania), Mary E., Allie, Maggie, Henry, Wilson S., Chalmers, Addie, and two who died while young. Mr. and Mrs. McVey's union was blessed by the birth of five children , three of whom are now living: Myrta J., born May 21, 1872, is attending college; Frank G., born July, 1875, is attending high school, and Mary L., born November 21, 1879, is also in school. Mr. McVey and family are members of the United Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder and an earnest worker. He is a republican in politics, and of late his sympathies have been with the prohibition party. Mr. McVey followed farming after the war until 1869, when he moved to Chandlerville and engaged in the drug business for about three years. From there he went to Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, and was in the general merchandising business until 1884, when he came to New Concord, where he has since been engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. Mr. McVey has held a number of official positions in the towns in which he has resided, and was treasurer of Guernsey county fair for a number of years. The Dresden Seamless Hosiery Company, C. H. Magness & Co., proprietors. Works corner Main and Chestnut streets. This is one of the largest, ablest and most equitably conducted industrial institutions of this county and promises to give conspicuity to this place as a manufacturing and business center. It dates its establishment here to February of the present year (1892), and the members of the firm are Joseph B. Mercer, C. H. Magness, and Harry J. Mercer, all live, energetic, business men. All have heretofore been associated with the business interests of Zanesville, and bring into requisition the amplest financial and executive ability for the most advantageous prosecution of this important industry. They have secured an excellent plant with ample buildings, and have introduced the newest improved machinery, propelled by one fifteen horse-power engine and boiler, and furnish employment to an average of forty to fifty hands in the various departments of the business. These works are devoted to the manufacture of the best grades of men's woolen half hose, and women's misses' and children's hose, made from the best of yarns, and which, in reliability of construction and stability of color, will bear favorable comparison with any contemporaneous establishment in the Union. This institution is one which reflects credit upon the place, both in its products and the efficiency of its management, and is prepared to supply the trade upon as favorable terms as any similar house in the United States, when true equality is taken into consideration, Traveling salesmen represent this house in various sections of the Union. Joseph B. Mercer was born in Zanesville, Ohio, January 11, 1857, and is a son of Hiram and Alice (Ailes) Mercer. He received a good high-school education in Zanesville, and 522 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. subsequently was engaged in office work for the Zanesville Woolen Mills for eight years. In 1881 he became a partner in the Zanesville Hose Manufacturing Company, which employed about 250 hands all the time, and he remained connected with this until 1887. In 1890 Mr. Mercer accepted his present position as manager of the Dresden Hosiery company. He was married in 1886 to Miss Anna Starr, a native of Muskingum county, and the daughter of Moses Starr, Who resides in Cambridge, Ohio. In politics lie is a republican and socially he affiliates with the K. of P. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Charles H. Magness was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, July 1, 1863, and is a son of Fielding and Caroline (Wells) Magness, both now residing with their son Charles. The later received a good practical education in the common schools and when twenty years of age began clerking in a store for Sturtevant & Martin. with whom he continued for six years. After this he clerked for Thomas Coulton for one year. In 1886 he married Miss Stella Parsons, of Zanesville, and the daughter of Henry Parsons. He is a member of the K. of P., and in politics is a stanch republican. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. Harry J. Mercer was born in Zanesville, Ohio, March 28, 1864, and is a son of Hiram and Alice (Ailes) Mercer. He was well educated in the common schools, and when sixteen years of age commenced working in the Zanesville Woolen Mills, where he continued for about nine months. He then worked for the Hose Manufacturing company, and subsequently in the carpet store of W. H. Rutledge. After this he became shipping clerk in the hose factory at Zanesville, and remained thus engaged until 1890, when the present firm was organized with Mr. Mercer as a partner. He is also a member of the K. of P., and in politics is a republican. John H. Mangold, superintendent of the Muskingum County Infirmary, is a native of this county, born in Zanesville, April 17, 1842, and is a son of Adam and Susan (Long) Mangold, both natives of Germany. The parents left their native country for this in 1841, and Mr. Mangold worked at his trade as cooper in Zanesville for a few years, subsequently purchasing a farm near that city, where his death occurred on August 7, 1881, aged sixty-eight years. He was a good citizen and was honored and respected by all. His wife died in May, 1855, in Muskingum county. In 1857 he married for his second wife Miss Elizabeth Thomas, who died in September, 1872. One child was born to them, Caroline, the wife of Samuel Hall. John H. Mangold, the eldest. child and only son of a family of four children, is, with one sister, the only one now living. He began for himself at the age of fifteen years and was partly reared by a Mr. Alexander Armstrong, a prominent and influential farmer of this county. On August 22, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry as a private and was promoted to corporal, October 6, 1862, and sergeant, February 1, 1865. He participated in the following engagements: Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse, Bloody Angle, Cold Harbor, and siege of Petersburg. He was shot in the right shoulder and sent back to One Hundred and Twenty-second regiment, being off duty until December of the same year. At Winchester, June 15, 1863, he was taken prisoner, sent to Libby prison, from there two days later to Belle Island, and about twenty-eight days later still, to Castle Thunder. He was there two days and a night when he was paroled. After being discharged he returned to Muskingum county, where he followed the butchering business, which he had learned prior to entering the army. He followed that until 1874, when he purchased a farm near Sonora, this county, where he resided until March, 1889, when he was appointed to fill the position he now occupies. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Elizabeth Border, the daughter of Samuel and Margaret Border, who was born near Sonora, this county, and they are the parents of the following children: Lula G. (wife of Charles E. Reed), Martha A. (wife of W. S. Dunn), Blanche A., Charles C., William B., Harry A., Eli F., Norwood F. and Mary E. Mr. Mangold was elected one of the three county infirmary directors in 1882 and served three years. He is an influential citizen and was a member of the school board for a number of years in Washington township. He cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has always affiliated with the republican party. He superintends the entire business of the County infirmary, which is no small task, requiring a man of judgment and experience to conduct it properly, and he is well qualified to fill that position. He and Mrs. Mangold are members of the German Lutheran church, which. Mr. Mangold joined when fifteen years of age. He owns 128 acres in Washington and 51 acres in Perry townships, all in one tract located six miles of Zanesville. In 1866 Mr. Mangold joined the Masonic fraternity at Zanesville, and is junior deacon of Amity lodge No. 5. About 1870 he was initiated in Moxahala lodge No. 144, I. O. O. F., is also a member of the G. A. R. post No. 412, and on November 25, 1889, he became a member of Phoe nix lodge No. 388, K. of P. J. S. Marcellus, horticulturist and mine operator, was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., August 19, 1831, and settled in. Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1836. He was the seventh of eight children born to John and Sarah (McNeal) Marcellus, the HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 523 former of whom descended from a family of French Huguenots, who were driven from France on account of their religious belief. The father was born in Trenton, N. J., December 4, 1795, but in 1825 he removed to the state of New York and, although a carpenter and farmer by occupation, he there engaged in getting out timber for ship building purposes. He died at the age of forty-five years, his death occurring on October 2, 1841. His wife, who was of Irish descent, was born in Berks county, Penn., September 7, 1789, and was married on December 18„ 1818. This lady had four brothers and four sisters, but the brothers all died before reaching the age of twenty-eight years, but the sisters all lived to be over eighty years of age. The mother came to Ohio in 1836, and after being left a widow with a large family to support, she was married, in 1845, to Jonathan Stockdale, who was called from life in 1858. He was de, scended from a Quaker family and was himself a member of the Friends church. His death occurred at the age of forty-five years. The mother's last days were spent at the home of her son near Zanesville, and there she peacefully breathed her last on August 20, 1889, at the age of eighty-nine years. Of her children, Levi, at an early age took charge of the home affairs, the duties of which he discharged with credit to himself. He was born in Berks county, Penn., in 1820, and came to Ohio with the family in 1836. He was married, in this state, to Miss Elizabeth Culk by whom he became the father of six sons and five daughters, seven of whom are still living. In 1855 he emigrated to McLean county, Ill., and settled near Le Roy, but soon after moved to Downs, where his wife died. In 1859 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Blue, who bore him two daughters. He made his home in Illinois until 1867, when he removed to Kansas, his wife dying in that state in 1874. Two years later he took for his third wife, Elizabeth A. Hand. During the last year of the Civil war he served in Company B., One Hundred and Fiftieth Illinois infantry. He lived until September 5, 1884, when he died at the age of sixty-four years. The brothers and sisters of Levi Marcellus were as follows: Joseph was born May 5, 1828, and died January 22, 1829; Mary was born September 7, 1826, and died September 4, 1845; Julia was born June 17, 1834; and died September 5, 1845; Theodore was born December 3, 1829, and died July 30, 1850, in Cleveland, Ohio, of cholera (he owned and operated a line of packet boats on White Water canal and carried the United States mail and passengers); Helen died in infancy; and the mother's second union resulted in the birth of one child, Sarah J.. who was born in 1847 and died in infancy. J. S. Marcellus, another brother and the subject of this sketch, commenced life for himself as a farm hand by working for $3 per month. At the age of fourteen years he became an employe of J. Simons, a merchant and crockery dealer, as errand boy, and afterward became his clerk. He remained with this gentleman until he was twenty-three years of age, during which time he became very much attached to his employer, who took the place of a father to him. After leaving Mr. Simons' employ he engaged in the photographic and advertising business, which he followed for seven years. He then returned home and has since lived on the home farm. He has taken several extensive trips through the East and West, but is very well pleased with the state of Ohio and besides the home farm, which comprises seventy acres, he owns a like amount near Emporia, Lyon county, Kas. On May 15, 1859, he was married to Miss Louisa Wilkins, a native of Morgantown, W. Va., where she was born in 1833, the elder of two children born to John and Rebecca (Berkshire) Wilkins, the former of whom was an Irishman by descent and a native of Pennsylvania. His father was the founder of the family in America. The mother was a native of West Virginia, her ancestors settling in the state at an early day. The other daughter is Mattie C., the wife of H. S. Goshen, now residing at Salem, Ohio, by whom she has a family of five children. Politically Mr. Marcellus has always been a republican and has always been interested in politics. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is a member of the Horticultural society of Zanesville. He has been a member of the republican executive committee for the past twelve years, he served as assessor for a number of years and has also been township enumerator. Charles Marquand, Marquand, Muskingum county, Ohio, belongs to one of the oldest families in Monroe township, and the first settlers on Wills creek. Charles Marquand, the founder of the family in America and the original pioneer on Wills creek, was born about 1763 on the Isle of Guernsey. He was of French descent and could speak that language. He married there Rachel Lovett and they were the parents of six children, all of whom lived to be grown, and all born on the Isle of Guernsey. They were: Rachel, Sophia, Charles, Peter, John and Solomon. Charles Marquand was a carpenter by trade. He came to America, settled in Georgetown, D. C., and here worked at his trade and owned property, Some of his building he owned and rented until his death. After a residence here of some years, he moved to the wilderness of Ohio settled where the town of Cambridge now stands, but soon after 524 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. moved to Wills creek when there was not a stick cut in the wilds of that stream. He built a log house on the land upon which his grandson, Charles, now lives, in a field near the road. The spot is now marked by an ancient apple tree planted by the hand of the old pioneer. He cleared a farm by perseverance and energy, accumulated property, and at his death owned 625 acres in the county. He ran salt works at an early day on Wills creek, built a gristmill and sawmill and ran a carding mill and fulling mill. These were the first mills in this part of the county. Mr. Marquand also owned a store and did a large mercantile business. He built a large two-story brick house in 1836-37, which was the only brick house in this part of the county. He was a lover of liberty and freedom and opposed to all secret societies. He was a man of honor and integrity of character and lived to the great age of ninety-three years, dying March, 1856. Solomon Marquand, son of the above mentioned gentleman and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the Isle of Guernsey. His principal business was working in his father's mill and store. December, 1833, he married Eliza Hanks, daughter of Jeremiah and Catherine (Shively) Hanks. Jeremiah Hanks was of Virginian ancestry and a farmer of Irish and Dutch descent. The Shivelys were of Swiss and Welsh descent. The Hanks moved to Ohio in 1817 and settled in Highland township, this county. Mr. Hanks was a comfortable pioneer farmer, reared a family of twelve children and was in the War of 1.812. He lived to the age of seventy-seven years and was a member of the Methodist church and an honest and respected citizen. To Solomon Marquand and wife were born two children: Charles and John W. Mr. Marquand was a member of the Methodist church and died April 2, 1841, only six years after his marriage, cut down in the prime of life by that dread disease, consumption. Charles Marquand, his son and the subject of this sketch, was born May 26, 1837, and received a common-school education. Like his father before him, he learned to work on the farm. He married at the age of twenty-three years, in December, 1851, Elizabeth Sutton, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Slack) Sutton. Samuel Sutton was from New Jersey, coming to Ohio when a young man. He was a prosperous farmer and old pioneer settler of Adams township, and was deacon for many years in the Baptist church and a man honored by all. He was the father of ten children, all lived to be grown: Joseph, Philip, John, George, Thomas, Elizabeth, Ann, William, Samuel and Margaret. He lived to be nearly eighty-seven years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marquand were born six children: Henry C., Walter E., Minor S., George E., Ella M. and Annie B. Mr. Marquand lived on the old homestead nearly all his life and is well known for his sterling traits of character. In politics he is a republican. Both Mr. and Mrs. Marquand are members of the Methodist church and Mr. Marquand is steward and trustee. He and his brother, John, own all the land that the pioneer Charles Marquand possessed, and it is a goodly heritage. Mr. Marquand stands in his community as a man of high character. Of the children Henry C. married Margaret Sturtz, and they have one child. He is a miller at the old Marquand mill. Walter E. married Louise Trottman, and they have one child. He is a farmer on the home farm. The rest of the children are at home, with the exception of George, who is attending school at Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Marquand is giving all his children good educational advantages. J. W. and O. L. Martin are men who have steadily and surely made their way to the front in the profession of law, and possess, in a more than ordinary degree, the natural attributes essential to a successful career at the bar and in public. They were both born in Perry township, Muskingum county, Ohio; were reared to the duties of farm life, and were educated in the public schools near their home. Being desirous of supplementing this education in some higher institution of learning, J. W. Martin entered the university of Rochester, N. Y., from which he graduated in 1870, after which he studied law with G. L. Phillips, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He at once entered upon the practice of his profession, and continued alone until 1886, when his brother, 0. L. Martin, became his partner. The latter has thoroughly fitted himself for a professional life by completing a course of study in Chautauqua college, at Chautauqua, N. Y., having previously taken a normal-school course. Following this he was admitted as an attorney in all the government departments, but was not admitted to general practice. Since then he has turned his attention entirely to pension and notary work, and he and his brother enjoy a large and lucrative practice and are reckoned among the leading and most prominent members of the Zanesville bar. They are logical reasoners, safe counselors, are careful in the preparation of their cases, and have the ability to present them in a concise, but logical and forcible manner. They are earnest and conscientious advocates, and their success has been achieved by the improvement of opportunities, by untiring diligence, and by close study and correct judgment of men and motives. 0. L. Martin was born in 1860, is a member and clerk of the First Baptist church and the Y. M. C. A., and is director and recording secretary in the the latter. He was married, in 1888, to Miss Hes- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 525 ter L. Perry, daughter of William T. Perry, of the Seventh ward, of Zanesville. J. W. Martin was born in 1842, and until the Civil war broke out worked on his father's farm and attended school. In May, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer infantry in the 100 days' service, at the expiration of which time he enlisted in the Sixty-sixth regiment and served until the war closed. He was married to Miss Emeline J. McCashland, by whom he has two children, a son and daughter. He is a member of the G. A. R. post. George Martin, the father of these gentlemen, was born in Jefferson county, Va., came to this county, about 1839, as an agent for a threshing-machine company, and brought the first thresher to Muskingum county. He followed farming all his life, until 1884, when he ceased its active pursuits. and is now quite aged. His wife has attained to the age of seventy years, and has not a grey hair in her head. She is the mother of eight children, seven of whom are living: J. W.; Mrs. Lizzie Brown, of Bay Shore, Long Island; Evan H., an Episcopal minister of Buffalo, N. Y. ; Arney C., a Lutheran minister; Mattie J. Hawn; Charles S. and 0. L. The sons in this family are all professional men, except Charles S., who remained on the farm until the spring of 1891, since which he has been following the occupation of a carpenter. Judge William Thomson Mason, Norwich, Ohio, is one of our old settlers. He is of old colonial stock of English descent. His grandfather was Peter Mason, who was long a resident of Hanover county, Va., and passed his later days in Orange county, Va. His son, James Mason, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Orange county, Va., and married Eliza Mason, a second cousin, of Hanover county, Va. Mr. Mason first settled in Orange county and lived there ten years, then settled in Spottsylvania county where he passed the remainder of his life, dying at the age of thirty-five years. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was the father of three children; one died an infant, the others were, W. T. and James. His widow married Jefferson Almond, a farmer of Spottsylvania county, Va., and by this union became the mother of three children;—Oscar, George and Susan J. Mrs. Mason lived to the age of eighty one years. W. T. Mason, our subject, was born October 17, 1816, in Orange county, Va., on his grandfather, Peter Mason's farm. He received a common-school education, attending school about four years in Virginia, and three years in this county. His father died when he was but ten years of age, and he after this time took care of himself. When sixteen years of age, November 1, 1832, he came to Muskingum county, Ohio, with some relatives, who came by wagon. He worked by the day at farm work, receiving 31 cents and 373: cents per day. He taught school and finally bought eighty acres in Meigs township, paying $10 per acre. He remained single until twenty-seven years of age, his home being kept by some maiden aunts, sisters of his father. He was elected and held all the offices of his township--treasurer, clerk, township trustee, justice of the peace and constable. He held the office of justice of the peace for nine years in Meigs township and was then, in 1857, elected probate judge in Muskingum county. In 1843 Mr. Mason married Mary Thornburgh, daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Cunningham) Thornburgh. Mr. Thornburgh was from Pennsylvania and was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was in several battles and taken prisoner. He was by profession a land surveyer and a school teacher. He was the father of four children: Mary, Ann, and two died young. Mr. Thornburgh was a respected pioneer citizen. After marriage, Mr. Mason lived on his farm in Meigs township. To Mr. and Mrs. Mason were born six children: Susan E., Eliza E., Thomas E. (died an infant), Maria L. (deceased), Mary S. (died an infant), and William J. In 1857 Mr. Mason, being elected probate judge, moved to Zanesville and resided there six years and then bought the farm on which he now resides consisting of 320 acres. Judge Mason is a man of character and honor and was a very popular man in his active days, standing high in the estimation of the people in his community. The farm now occupied by Judge Mason was originally entered by a man by the name of Brown and afterward sold to Mr. McCloud and then to Moses Morehead, who built a large old fashioned tavern ten miles east of Zanesville on the National road. W. J. Mason, son of Judge Mason, was born December 12, 1850, in Meigs township, on his father's farm. He received a common-school education, attended public school at Zanesville and later Muskingum college, New Concord, Ohio. He graduated from the Commercial college, at Zanesville, Ohio, and taught school four years in Salem, Perry and Union townships. He married in 1874, Maria Hadden, daughter of Samuel M. Hadden [see sketch.] They have three children: Ethel L., Anna L., and William H. After marriage Mr. Mason settled on the home farm in 1876, engaged in mercantile business in Sonora, continuing until 1878, when he was burned out. He then returned to the home farm where he now resides. He, like his father, is a popular man politically. He is a democrat and has held the office of clerk, treasurer and school director in his township. Socially he is a Mason and a member of the Malta lodge No. 118, and has held all the offices in the gift of the lodge. He is also a member of the Zanesville lodge of Elks No. 114. In 1890 Mr. Mason was a member of the State Decennial Board of Equalization, representing the 526 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Fifteenth and Sixteenth districts, and served with credit to himself and benefit to his district. He received the nomination three times in succession by his party for clerk of the county court. He is an active and public spirited young man and takes an interest in all matters pertaining to the good of the county. He has been president (except two years), since 1884, of the Eastern Muskingum Agricultural association of Norwich. The Mason family descend from the prominent Virginia colonial family of that time, the first who came from England being Colonel George Mason, coming about the year 1651. [See " Mason " in American Cyclopedia, Vol. XI.] Judge Mason's mother was the granddaughter of Thomson Mason of the old Virginia family. Thomson Mason was the younger brother of George Mason, who was a prominent member of the convention to form the constitution of the United States. Thomson Mason was a direct descendant of Colonel George Mason, a member of the English parliament in the reign of Charles I, and after his defeat in Worcester in 1651, escaped to Virginia, losing all his possessions in England. William J. Massey, a popular attorney at Zanesville, Ohio, is among those who contribute strength to the Ohio bar. He is a native of Morgan county, Ohio, born May 18, 1850, and a son of John and Mary (Crawford) Massey. His boyhood days were spent upon his father's farm working in the summer and attending country school in the winter. At the age of eighteen, he began teaching school, and continued to teach in the winter season, and farm in the summer, until 1874, when, having met with an accident, which partially disabled him, he concluded to prepare himself for a professional life. In the fall of 1874, he entered. Muskingum college, graduating therefrom in 1877. Immediately after graduating, he accepted the position of principal of the Roseville schools in Muskingum county, which position he held until the summer of 1880, when he resigned to accept the position of superintendent of the public schools in New Concord, Ohio. He remained at the head of the New Concord schools four years, winning for himself an enviable reputation as a teacher, being considered one of the most progressive and successful in the county. While living in New Concord, he served three terms as mayor of the town. While engaged in school work, what time he could spare from other duties, was devoted to the study of law, and in the fall of 1884 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, and at once opened an office in Zanesville where he has since continued in the practice of his chosen profession, meeting with the best success. He is well versed in law, a forcible and fluent speaker, an able practitioner and a safe counselor. Mr. Massey has been twice married, first on March, 6, 1872 in his native county to Miss Mary E. McKittrick, also a native of Morgan county, and a lady he had known from childhood. Two interesting children blessed this union, Bertie Belle and Bayard Burns. His wife died August, 27, 1886. On March 5, 1889, he married Miss Ardelia Clark, a native of Zanesville, youngest daughter of Samuel Clark, a pioneer lumber merchant of that city. The second marriage has resulted in the birth of two children, Myra Clark and Anna Ardelia. Mr. and Mrs. Massey are members of the First Presbyterian church of Zanesville. In politics he is a republican. If the old country had not contributed to the population of the new, Ohio would not have reached its present high state of development. Germany has furnished her full quota of excellent men, and among them is Matthias Mast, a resident of Nashport, Licking township, Ohio, honored and respected by all his acquaintances. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, December 22, 1820, and his parents, George and Mary (Mayers) Mast, were also natives of that country. The father was a wagon maker by trade, and was a man much esteemed in his country. He was quite well-to-do for his station in life in Germany, and was a member of the council of the village in which he lived —Thumlingen--for fifteen years. He was a Lutheran in his religious belief, and died in 1865, when sixty-five years of age. He was the father of the following children: Matthias, Catherine, Adam, Hester, George and Mary. The eldest child, Matthias Mast, was educated in the common schools of his native land, and when fourteen years of age began working on the farm. On March 22, 1842, when twenty-two years of age, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Eberhart, daughter of Jacob Eberhart, a farmer of his native province. The fruits of this union were two sons: George and John, now prominent farmers of Missouri. Mrs. Mast died in Wurtemberg about 1846, and two years later Mr. Mast married Christina Mayers, daughter of John Mayers, of that country. To this union were born four children: Christina, who died in 1886; Matthias, Catherine and Mary. Mr. Mast remained on the home farm which he had purchased of his father, until 1855, when he came to America, and settled in Nashport, where he had a brother and sister, George and Hester, living. On arriving at Nashport, Mr. Mast immediately began working for N. F. Claypool, in his distillery and remained thus engaged for eight years. He is a man of excellent business acumen and his services are ever in demand. In 1858 Mr. Mast bought the land where he now lives. All this property was accumulated by hard work, industry and economy, and now consists of 140 acres of good land. In 1887 Mrs. Mast died. When Mr. Mast first came to Nashport, he established a HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 527 Lutheran church and assisted in employing a preacher. When they could get no preacher Mr. Mast conducted the services himself, in the German language. He is still a devout Lutheran. In politics he is a democrat. All his children have been well educated in the common schools, and Mr. Mast has ever been interested in educational matters, having held the office of director many times. His son George married Melinda Eichorn, and is the father of ten children. He is a prosperous farmer of Livingston county, Mo., and the owner of 480 acres; John married Mary Grouse and has three children. He is also in Livingston county, Mo., and is the owner of 300 acres of land; Christina married William Vanwey, a farmer, and both are now deceased. They left one child Calvin; Catherine married John Dickey, a farmer, and the owner of 180 acres, and they have four children. Matthias married Julia Bonnifield, a farmer on the home place and they have six children; Mary received a good education at Zanesville and in normal schools, and has been teaching since 1879. She has taught both district and village schools, and is an experienced and able instructor. Mr. Mast is a substantial, honored citizen, and his word has never been questioned. He is a self-made man and what he has accumulated is the result of his own honest labor. Dr. Samuel C. Mendenhall, of Frazeysburg, Muskingum county, Ohio, is a representative of one of the oldest and most honored families of Jackson township, the members of which in successive generations have been respected and honored by all who have known them. His father, Richard Chancy Mendenhall, was born in Jefferson county, Va., December 8, 1792, and was a son of Samuel Mendenhall, who was of English descent, and a native of Pennsylvania. One of the latter's ancestors, accompanied by two of his brothers, came from England to America in the early settlement of Pennsylvania by the Quakers under William Penn, 1682, or soon after. The Mendenhall family were Quakers, and Samuel Mendenhall lost his membership in the Friends church on account of the services he performed when about nineteen years of age, in assisting Gen. Washington's army to haul cannon to the battle field of Germantown. He became a farmer and located in Jefferson county, Va., where he accumulated property worth $80, 000. He married a widow, Mrs. Hannah Park (nee Griswold), who was also of Quaker stock, and they became the parents of eight children: Hannah, Lydia, Esther, Jane, Martha, Samuel, Richard C. and Thomas. In 1814 Mr. Mendenhall came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and bought 1,300 acres in the south-central part of Jackson township, and his sons, Richard and Thomas, settled on this purchase. The father returned to the old homestead afterward; but in 1819 he came back to Jackson township again and built a gristmill on the Wakatomaka creek, which was the first in the north part of old Muskingum county. Thomas Mendenhall, then a young man, operated this mill. Having made this improvement Mr. Mendenhall again turned his face toward his old homestead. These trips he made back and forth on horseback, for a distance of about 500 miles, through an almost unbroken wilderness, the northern portion of it over the Zane trace. He died July 5, 1822. He was by trade a cooper, and he began life with no capital save energy and a determination to make his way to success. Naturally industrious and energetic and possessed of good practical business ability, he made, by dint of hard work and the exercise of frugality, quite a fortune for those days. Upright and honorable in all his dealings, he was well fitted by nature to endure the vicissitudes of pioneer life, and to found a family in a new state. His son, Richard C. Mendenhall, the father of the immediate subject of this sketch, was born on the old homestead in Virginia, and received but a limited common-school education. He was reared to the life of a farmer and. was married in Jefferson county, Va., to Miss Sarah Allemong, of German descent, who bore him six children: Ruth A., Samuel C., Hannah, Jane E., Richard P. and John H. On May 1, 1816, Mr. Mendenhall arrived in Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, bringing with him his wife and two old acquaintances with their families. One of his companions was Joshua Bennett, who brought his wife (a sister to Mr. Mendenhall) and three children. This little party was six weeks coming through the wilderness from Virginia to Muskingum county; they had two covered wagons, each provided with a four-horse team, besides several riding horses. Mrs. Mendenhall rode horseback most of the way. They slept in their wagons at night, when they were not kept awake by the howling and snarling of wild beasts in the forests which surrounded their camping places. This journey was made between the middle of March and the date of their arrival above mentioned. They were obliged to cut their way through the unbroken woods, a distance of five miles from Irville to their new home, where they found a deserted cabin in which they lived until they found time to build a comfortable house of hewed logs. They cleared land, put in a small crop of corn, and this was the beginning of their pioneer life in this county. Mr. Mendenhall and his family lived in their log house until 1844. There all his children were born, and there his daughter, Ruth, was married to Jefferson Arnold, in 1839. In 1844 he built a brick house and resided in that until his death. In politics he was 528 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. a whig until the organization of the republican party, after which he affiliated with that. He was a leading member of the Methodist church, and in this he performed the duties of class-leader, steward and trustee. He was the pioneer temperance man of this county, was among the first to take his stand against whisky in the harvest field, at raisings and log-rollings, and was active in all good work. His death, which occurred on March 9, 1871, when seventy-eight years of age, was universally regretted. He was a man of sterling worth, a friend of the poor and oppressed and a stern lover of justice, being a leading spirit in his community. It will be seen that the Mendenhalls were among the founders of Jackson township, concerned alike in the progress of its early settlement and in the development of its later interests and industries, which entitles them to the honor due the pioneers, who bravely made their way into the wilderness and, amid its hardships and privations, laid a sure foundation for the comforts and prosperity of to-day. It is from such sterling stock that Dr. Samuel C. Mendenhall descends. He was one of the leading physicians of the town of Frazeysburg for many years, and a surgeon in the United States army during the war. He was born on the old Mendenhall homestead in Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, September 11, 1824, and was self educated. At the early age of fifteen years he began teaching in the country schools, continued this three years and then, when eighteen years of age, began teaching in the schools in the vicinity of Zanesville, where he remained for ten years, four years of the time being principal of the high schools of that city. Subsequently he attended the Starling Medical college of Columbus, Ohio, from which institution he graduated, in 1850, at the head of a class of fifty-four. He began practicing his chosen profession hear Bloomfield, Morrow county, Ohio, in that year, and eight years later he settled in Frazeysburg, Ohio, where he became a successful medical practitioner. When the Rebellion broke out he cheerfully gave up his home and medical practice and was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventy-eighth regiment Ohio Volunteer infantry, in December, 1861. While engaged in active duty he had a severe attack of fever, partial paralysis resulted, and in May, 1862, he resigned his commission and returned home. Recovering his health to some extent he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventy-sixth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and left home February 23, 1863, serving until the close of the war, being mustered out with his regiment in July, 1865. Being assistant surgeon he was directly in the battles to immediately attend to the wounded, and was frequently under fire. He was present at the capture of Fort Donelson, battle of Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, was with Gen. Grant when he commanded the western army, battle of Jackson, Miss., Missionary Ridge; with Sherman at the siege of Atlanta, Resaca and Ringgold, at which place one-third of his regiment was shot down. Seven gallant color-bearers fell, one after the other, bearing the same flag. After this Dr. Mendenhall was with Sherman on his famous march to the sea, and was also present at the grand review at Washington, his regiment leading the column. His rank in the service was that of captain. After the war Dr. Mendenhall returned to his practice in Frazeysburg, and this he continued until his death, which occurred on September 20, 1887, when sixty-three years of age. He was a skillful and careful surgeon and physician, and a man of excellent moral character. He ranked high in his profession, and as a citizen was honored and revered. Dr. Mendenhall was twice married, first to Miss Martha Reed, daughter of Arthur and Martha (Irvin) Reed, their nuptials being celebrated on December 3, 1851. Mr. Reed was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Zanesville, settling with his wife in that city in 1809. He was a saddler by trade and resided in Zanesville the remainder of his days. He served as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was one of the early justices of the peace in Zanesville. He was an old line whig in politics and a man of excellent character. He died in 1851, when sixty-five years of age. He was the father of eight children, who lived to be grown: Irvin, Hugh, John A., Sallie A., Jane, Margaret, Mary and Martha. Dr. Mendenhall became the father of four children: Arthur, Annie M., Charles G. and Sallie F., all residents of this county. His first wife died March 12, 1873, and June 24, 1874, Dr. Mendenhall married the widow of David Edwards, formerly of Nashport, nee Catherine E. Drone, who was born January 11, 1827, and who was the daughter of John W. and Elizabeth (White) Drone. Mr. Drone was a descendant of an old colonial family of Virginia, many members of which served in the Revolution. He settled near Zanesville in 1829, followed farming, and after a number of years moved to a farm near Nashport. There his death occurred when fifty-one years of age. He was well known and highly respected by all. He was the father of ten children: Susan A., George W., Catherine E., Henry J., Lycurgus, Mary, John W., Jane. Alice and Oliver P. The different members of this family are scattered throughout the West and are people of character and reliability. Socially Dr. Mendenhall was a member of the Masonic order and was secretary of the lodge at Frazeysburg. He was a life long member of the Methodist church and has filled the offices of class- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 529 leader, steward and trustee. He was a stanch republican in politics, and was a member of the G. A. R. post in Frazeysburg. He was extensively known, for his practice extended far and wide and was attended with unusual success. Dr. Mendenhall went down to the grave loved and lamented, leaving to his children the peerless legacy of an unspotted name. Large of heart and free of hand, comforting the afflicted, laying not up treasures for himself, but giving freely to all those he knew in sickness and in want, and he knew many. He was one of the foremost men in building up Frazeysburg, and erected at least nine residences. He was permanently disabled in the war, and in his latter days a grateful country gave him a pension for his services. His widow now resides in Frazeysburg, where she has a pleasant residence, whose hospitable walls also afford a pleasant home to a son and daughter of Dr. Mendenhall's. Mrs. Mendenhall is held in high esteem for her many excellent qualities of mind and heart, and is a most worthy and estimable lady. She is a member of the Methodist church. Myrtilla J. Middleton is the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Ansley) Middleton, born in Calcutta, Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1844. Her father was a native of England, and emigrated to the United States about 1840. Here he was married, in 1842, to Mary Ansley [see sketch of William H. Thompson], of Columbiana county. The mother died there in 1855, at the age of fifty-two years. She was a member of the Seceder church. Myrtilla J. was reared and educated at the seminary in Beaver county, Penn., and also at Brownsville, Penn., giving most of her attention to music. She taught music, for a time, at the seminary at Clarksburg, Va., and later returned to Brownsville. From there she went to Hopkinsville, Ky., and taught music in Fulton county, Ky., at the Rose-well institute, also in Licking and in Muskingum counties, Ohio. She has devoted her life to the education of others, giving them the benefit of her superior intelligence and talent. Miss Middleton is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, and is very much interested in religious matters, giving much of her time to that work. She has resided in Muskingum county about ten years, having spent some of her time in the South. Charles C. Minner, farmer and stockraiser, Dresden, Ohio. Mr. Minner's parents, Fredrick and Rosanna Minner, were natives of Germany and were married in that country. About 1830 they came to the United States, settled in Pennsylvania, and there resided for three or four years. From there they moved to Muskingum county, Ohio, settled in Zanesville, where they remained for a short time and then moved to a farm two and a half miles from that city. There they resided for fifteen years. About 1855 the father moved to Madison township and settled on the place where Charles Collins now resides. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1870, he was the owner of 210 acres of land, which is now divided among his elder sons. He was a Lutheran minister, preaching in Zanesville, Dresden and other charges in the county, and continued his ministerial duties up to within a few years of his death. He was a great reader, a deep reasoner, and devoted much of his time to his church. His wife died in 1850. The fruits of this union were eight children, who are named in the order of their births as follows: Amanda, Louisa, Fredrick, Matilda, Charles C., William, Edward and Jacob. After the death of his first wife Mr. Minner was married to Miss Teckley Boling, a native of Germany, who came to this country and settled in Philadelphia- To this union were born three living children: Agean, Louis and Oscar. Mr. Minner was a democrat in politics, and a man universally respected. Charles C. Minner was born in Falls township, Muskingum county, Ohio, April 12, 1842, and received his education in this county. When nineteen years of age he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, under command of William Ball, and served three years, participating in some of the principal engagements during that time, among them: Wilderness, Winchester, Mine Run, Brandy Station, Petersburg, and, in fact, all the battles of the eastern army. He enlisted as a private, but in 1864 he was promoted to sergeant. He received his discharge May 22, 1865. Mr. Minner was wounded in the left thigh by a minie-ball, and is still troubled by the wound. He remained on the field a day, after receiving the wound, and was then taken prisoner and one month later was taken to Lynchburg, where he was held three weeks. From there he was conveyed to Danville, where he remained two and a half months, and was then released. Returning to his command, he served until the close of the war. After the war he tilled the soil as a farm hand, and on January 10, 1867, he was married to Miss Anna King, who was born in 1847, and who was the daughter of James King. Mr. and Mrs. Minner's union has been blessed by the birth of seven children: Edward, Emma (now Mrs. Charles E. Batey, residing in Indiana), Fredrick, Altona, Chalmer, Eura and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Minner are members of the Primitive Methodist church. In politics Mr. Minner is a republican, and he has held a number of township offices. He is interested in educational and religious enterprises, and takes an active part in all attempts to improve the county. He is a member of the G. A. R. post at Dresden. Mr. Minner has a good farm of 120 acres, five miles from Dresden, and is engaged 530 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. principally in raising stock. He has a fine resiresidence, and everything about the place indicates a progressive and substantial owner. Henry A. Montgomery, farmer, Perryton, Ohio. Among the prominent pioneer families of Ohio, the Montgomery family takes a prominent place, and the members of the same have ever been people of substantial worth and uprightness. The remote ancestors of this family were members of the famous Highland clan of Montgomery. William Montgomery, the grandfather of Henry A., emigrated from Scotland and settled in the north of Ireland, County Tyrone, when a young man. He was married here and became the father of one son, John. The mother of this child died and he subsequently married a Miss Lynn, who bore him four children: Samuel, Henry, Margaret and William, all of whom were born in the Emerald Isle. In 1803 William Montgomery emigrated to America and settled, first, near Stanton, Va. In 1810 he came to Ohio and made his home with his son, William, until his death which occurred when seventy-two years of age, and a short time after he came to Ohio. His son, William, father of the subject of this sketch was born about 1794, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Miss Margaret Grimes, of Pocahontas county, W. Va., and their union was blessed by the birth of eight children: Samuel, Charles, William C., Henry A., John F., Nancy, Emily C. and Amanda, all born in Licking county, Ohio. Mr. Montgomery became quite wealthy as a farmer, owned 400 acres of good land, and was universally liked. He died at the age of fifty-six years in Madison township, Licking county. His brother, Samuel, was a clergyman in the Methodist church and was stationed at Baltimore, Md., when a young man twenty-three years of age. He then went as a missionary to Quebec, but later returned to Virginia, and finally, in 1820, came to Licking county, Ohio. His death occurred in Madison township, that county, at the age of eighty years. He was a prominent Methodist minister in his day. Henry Montgomery, the remaining brother, was born in Ireland and was fourteen years of age when he came to America with his parents. He came to the Buckeye state in 1810, settled in Perry township, Licking county, and there resided until he reached the goodly age of eighty-two. He was a substantial farmer and was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, holding the office of steward, class-leader and clerk. He was a well-known pioneer citizen, and held the office of magistrate for some time. He reared a family of ten children. The sister, Margaret, married in Virginia, Joseph Irvin, and about 1815 they moved to Madison county, Ohio, settled on a farm and reared a family of six children. Three brothers of the original family, Henry, William and John, came to Licking county, Ohio, together, became substantial farmers, and there passed the remainder of their days. Henry A. Montgomery, son of William Montgomery, the second, and the subject of this sketch, was born April 24, 1824, and was fairly educated in the old log schoolhouse of pioneer days. At an early age he began assisting to clear the land of the heavy timber, and when a young man of twenty-one he embarked in merchandising at Elizabethtown, Licking county, and followed this for five years. After this lie followed farming, and January 12, 1847, he married Miss Mary E. Lemert, daughter of Beverly and Margaret (Fleming) Lemert. The Lemerts were an old pioneer family and one well respected. Beverly Lemert was born in Fauquier county, Va., December 13, 1798, but came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled in Dresden, where he was one of the first merchants. His father, Lewis Lemert, was a merchant of Fauquier county, Va., and there resided all his life. After his death the widow came with five children, two of her children, Laban, and Thaddeus, having located in Ohio two years previous and followed merchandising in Dresden. The children that came with the mother were: Beverly, Leroy, Ferdinand, Minerva Abner. Beverly Lemert remained in Dres de many years, and in 1827 bought the farm now occupied by Henry A. Montgomery and which was in part entered by Laban Lemert. Mr. Lemert remained here a few months and then went to Irville, where he engaged in merchandising and where he remained about five years. He then returned to his farm and there passed the remainder of his days. He accumulated a handsome competence and enjoyed the respect of the people. He was county commissioner and township trustee for some time, also an elder in the Disciple church. He was the father of eight children: Mary, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Nathan, Julia, Edward, and Harriet. Mrs. Lemert is still living and is in her eighty-third year. Their son, John, was first lieutenant in Company A, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and enlisted for three years. He was serving his second year when he was shot through the thigh at the battle of Ringgold, Ga. He was acting as major Of his regiment at the time he received his wound. He was taken across the mountains in an ambulance to Chickamauga, a distance of twenty miles, and there died of his wound. He first enlisted as a private, was promoted to sergeant. then first lieutenant. He was in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg, etc. Nathan enlisted while attending, school at Granville, Ohio, in Company B, Seventeenth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served three months. He then reenlisted in Fre- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 531 mont's guards, which were classed in a Missiouri regiment. He died of typhoid fever in a hospital at St. Louis, Mo., November 11, 1861, at the age of nineteen years and two months, and was buried with military honors at Perrytown. His remains were subsequently brought home by his mother. Thomas enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, May 2, 1864, in the 100 days' service, and was on guard duty on Baltimore and Ohio railroad at North Mount, hear Martinsburg, Va., and was captured by the confederates. He was taken to Andersonville July 4, 1864, and died from starvation and exposure September 14, 1864. Edward, the remaining son, was also in the war, enlisting at the age of sixteen, while attending Hiram college. He served three years, was in many battles, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Champion's Hill. Later he was exchanged and sent to Columbus, Ohio, where he was returned to his regiment and served out his time. He is now living on his farm in Iowa. Thus it may be seen that all the Lemert brothers were patriots and gallant soldiers. Their mother, now a venerable lady, was loyal to her country and instilled into the hearts of her sons fidelity to the government. At one time every male member of her family was fighting in defense of the Union. The Lemert family descended from good old colonial stock and have been patriots, pioneers and soldiers for many generations. Lewis Lemert, grandfather of Mrs. Montgomery, was a contemporary of Gen. Washington, was personally acquainted with him, and was his trusted agent, having his power as attorney to attend to his estate in Fauquier county, Va. Lewis Lemert possessed a goodly property and was an honest citizen of that county. The following is a copy of a curious document in the handwriting of Gen. Washington, now in the possession of the Lemert family and handed down as a precious heirloom. It is a power of attorney from Gen. Washington to Lewis Lemert to collect rents in Fauquier county, Va., and reads as follows: " I hereby empower Mr. Lewis Lemert to receive such rents as are due to me on the tract on which he himself lives, and which lies partly in the county of Fauquier and partly in Loudoun. I give him the same power with respect to my other tract on Goose creek near Mr. Robert Ashby's, and I authorize him to make distress for the annual or transfer rents which are reserved to me by the leases, and this he is in a more especial manner to do from such persons as are about to move from off the land. He will see by the leases (for I have it not in my power at this moment to make out the accounts, for each man individually) for many years they have been subject to the payment of rent, and he will make no allowances save such as appear by receipt from myself, Mr. Lewis Lemert, or any public officer, by way of deduction without any further authority from me. He is not to detain any money which he receives under this power, in his hands longer than can well be avoided, but shall transmit the same to me with an account of the same from whom and when received, as soon as possible. For his trouble in all these acts and doings, and in full compensation for all his expenses, I hereby agree to allow him five per cent for all moneys which he shall actually pay into my hands or any other person by my order. This power .to remain in force until revoked by me. Given under my hand at Mount Vernon, this 10th day of April, 1784. —Go. Washington." Margaret (Fleming) Lemert, mother of Mrs. Henry A. Montgomery, was born August 31, 1809, in Muskingum county, Licking township, and was the daughter of Col. Nathan Fleming, an old pioneer of that county who was born in Marion county, W. Va., in 1783, and married there Miss Mary, daughter of John Wood, a farmer. Col. and Mrs. Fleming were the parents of five children: Margaret, James, Albert, John and Daniel. Soon after marriage Col. Fleming came to Muskingum county, Ohio, and settled at Irville in the fall of 1804. He cleared land, resided here for a short time and then selling out located one-half mile east of the town, where he resided for many years. He engaged in mercantile pursuits with Beverly Lemert, under the firm of Fleming & Lemert, but Mr. Lemert retired in a few years and Col. Fleming continued the business. He was colonel in the old militia, and was at one time trustee of his township. He was a stirring business man and accumulated a large property. At one time he was engaged in shipping produce to New Orleans and went himself on the boats. He was one of the very earliest settlers and was a highly respected citizen. December, 20, 1827, Margaret Fleming married Beverly Lemert. The Fleming family is one of the largest and most remarkable in the United States. The name Fleming is traced back as far as the eleventh century. It is said that "William the Conqueror," king of Normandy, invaded England with a powerful army composed principally of Flemings inhabitants of Flanders, and that his wife was a Flemish princess. Tradition also says that in Scotland there is a place called the " Fleming Way " and that a strange family settled near the place and were called by common consent, "The Flemings," and they finally adopted the name. The American branch is distinctly related to the ancient Scotch-Irish family bearing that name, and William Fleming was the founder of this branch. He was driven from Scotland to the north of Ireland by religious persecu- 532 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. tion, and with three brothers, emigrated to America early in the eighteenth century, settling in Delaware. It is believed that these four brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1680, 212 years ago, and took up land under William Penn, in what is now called Delaware. It appears from the records that the land on which they settled was in what is now Mispillion Hundred, Kent county, and embraced a tract of country three miles square. The four families settled near together, probably for self protection, and all were, as far as known, of Presbyterian faith. These brothers founded the American branch of the family, cultivated large estates, and grew wealthy. It was not until 1754 that the first authentic record appears on the court books in the shape of the will of Robert Fleming, who died that year. The next record is that of a son of one of the original four brothers. George Fleming' s daughters and their descendants lived and died in the old Fleming homestead, which is still standing in Delaware and occupied by lineal descendants of the original Flemings. Upon the estate is built the town of Farmington, which is named after Farmington, W. Va., a village which was founded by the Fleming family, who emigrated to Delaware, as hereafter shown. The next will is that of William Fleming, who died July 1, 1766. William Fleming Jr., died June 7, 1784, and left a widow and five sons to survive him, from some of whom have descended the Flemings of West Virginia, and other western localities, and whose name is legion. The names of four of these sons were: Nathan, Boaz, Benaiah, and Benoni, and their mother's maiden name, Jane Frame. William Fleming Jr., was married the second time, his wife being Ann Hudson, and to them was born one son, Thomas Fleming. Benaiah Fleming remained on the old homestead, but the others emigrated to West Virginia, and settled in the vicinity of Fairmount. From the four sons who settled about Fairmount, W. Va., have descended a host of people in that section of the state, Col. Nathan Fleming, grandfather of Mrs. Montgomery, being a descendant. The entire Fleming family of the United States held a reunion August, 19, 1891, at Fairmount, W. Va. It brought together hundreds of representatives from all parts of the Union. Delegates were present from twenty-five states to the number of more than 1,000, the largest delegation being from Indiana and arrived on a special train of five cars, there being 300 people. The lawyer, the merchant, the teacher, the journalist, the laborer, the man of affluence and the man of moderate circumstances, were all represented. The family numbered among them governors, mayors, legislators, and all professions and occupations, and was one of the most remarkable reunions ever recorded. One of the most interesting features of the day was the display of the record of the Fleming family, which represented an immense amount of work, by Mrs. Annie (Sweeney) Fleming, wife of Mayor Fleming, of Wheeling, W. Va. Thus the Montgomery family have commingled their blood with some of the best families in our country and their descendants may well be proud of the sterling ancestry from which they sprang. To Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Montgomery have been born seven children: Edward E., Alice E., Henry C., Ida M., John A., Thaddeus L. and Nellie L. In 1858 Mr. Montgomery moved to the Lemert homestead, where he has since resided. He and wife are members of the Methodist church. During the Civil war he served as first lieutenant in Company H. One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, served one hundred days and was stationed at Baltimore. Socially he is a Mason, a member of Frazeysburg lodge. He is a practical farmer, owns 600 acres of land, and has a tasteful residence before which slopes one of the finest lawns in the county. On this lawn are trees planted by his own hand. Their daughter, Alice E., married James E. Bradfield, October 9, 1876, a farmer of Lyon county, Kas., and they have three children: Harvey, Lewis and Harriet. Mr. Bradfield served three years in the Civil war, One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was in several battles, among them the Wilderness, where he barely escaped with his life. Mr. Montgomery's son, Edward E., is a prominent physician and surgeon of Philadelphia and married Helen Buckley. They have two children: Susan and Mary, the latter dying in infancy. Henry C. married Lillian Zollers, November 9, 1880, and they have one child, Henry Z. John married Ad-die Lewis. He is a farmer of Macon, Ill., and the father of one child, Edward L. Ida married Dr. A. F. Chase, of Philadelphia, who is a successful physician. Thaddeus is a resident of Newark, Ohio, and connected with the Franklin Bank. Nellie L. is a young lady at home. The Montgomery family has been uniformlly successful, and can justly attribute much of their success to the good Scotch-Irish ancestry from which they sprang. Their ancestors were men of excellent morals, strong constitutions and intelligent minds, and such traits of character descend in families from generation to generation and much that we are, we owe to our ancestors, and our training in childhood. Rev. Joseph G. Moore (deceased). On the 17th of August 1864, there died one of those great and noble characters whose life's work was to minister to the spiritual wants of his fellow-man. Joseph G. Moore was of sturdy Virginia stock and his father, Jonathan Moore, who was originally from HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 533 Loudoun county, Va., was one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, settling there as early as 1820 or 1825. The latter, with his wife and two children, first located in Coshocton. county, Pike township, but a few years later moved to Jackson township, Muskingum county, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was a stanch republican in his political views, and was a strong Union man during the war. He lived to be seventy-five years of age and died in full communion with the Baptist church. Mr. Moore was a man of excellent character, thoroughly upright and honorable, and his career in life was above reproach. He was married in Loudoun county, Va., to Miss. Nancy Keys, who bore him four children: Francis M., James T., John M. and Joseph G. The Keys family was originally from Virginia, and Mrs. Moore had an uncle in the Revolutionary war. Joseph G. Moore, the youngest child of the above mentioned family, and the subject of this sketch, was born in Coshocton county, Pike township, November 11, 1831, and moved to Jackson township when a small boy, where he spent the remainder of his life, and supplemented the usual common-school education by attending the academy at Martinsburg. He was an excellent scholar, studious and persevering, and he made the best of his opportuities. He began teaching at the age of nineteen and continued this work until he entered the army. He was one of the foremost educators in. Muskingum and Coshocton counties, and although an excellent disciplinarian, he was greatly beloved by his pupils. On the 6th of December, 1855, he married Miss Elizabeth McKee, daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth (Ashcraft) McKee. Mr. McKee was born in County Donegal, Ireland and of Scotch-Irish descent. He was fairly educated and taught school for some time. When seventeen years of age be came to America, and was here married to Miss Elizabeth Ashcraft, daughter of Daniel Ashcraft, and they became the parents of twelve children: Daniel, Sarah A., John, James, Rachel, Egbert, Elizabeth, Jane, John R., William, and two who died in infancy. Mr. McKee had three brothers and two sisters: Thomas, Gilbert, James, Jane and Isabelle. He owned a good farm in Pike township, Coshocton county, 640 acres, and on this he received his final summons, his death occurring when nearly ninety years of age. He was hardworking and industrious, and became one of the wealthy citizens. In politics he was a democrat. Mrs. McKee died at the age of sixty years. After marriage Rev. Joseph G. Moore settled in Muskingum county, Jackson township, and in May, 1864, he volunteered in the service of his country. He was elected chaplain of Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and was on guard duty. After serving about two months he was attacked with typhoid fever and died five weeks later, his death occurring on the day that his enlistment expired, August 17, 1864. His faithful and devoted wife, learning of his severe illness, hastened to his bedside and carefully nursed him to the end. She bore this cross with the patience and resignation of a true Christian . Mr. Moore was a man of great natural talent and ability which he exhibited in his chosen calling, and as an orator he was gifted and eloquent. In his death the church lost one of its most earnest advocates and Mrs. Moore a loving and devoted husband. To Rev. and Mrs. Moore were born four children: Sarah J., Flora, Mary E. and Pactrick H. Sarah J. married a farmer of Jackson township, and they have four children: Flora, married Josiah Oden, also a farmer of Jackson township, and died when twenty-nine years of age leaving one child. Mary E., married B. A. McGinnis, a traveling salesman, and they have one child, Patrick H., married to Miss Pauline Dunn, and is engaged in farming in Jackson township. They have one child. Mrs. Moore is pleasantly situated with her son-in-law, B. A. McGinnis, and is a lady of more than ordinary ability. She is president of the W. C. T. U. of Frazeysburg. Mrs. Nancy Moore was the wife of Robert Moore (deceased). He was born in this county in 1813, and was a son of James and Margaret (McNeal) Moore, the parents of seven children : Thomas Mary, James, Nancy, John, Margaret and Robert. James Moore and wife were both natives of County Antrim, Ireland, and of Scotch descent. Coming to this country they first settled in Pennsylvania, and at an early day they came to Muskingum county, Ohio, settling on a farm where they both died. They were among the prosperous pioneer farmers of the county. Their children are all deceased, Robert being the last of the family. Robert was reared in this county, and here attended the subscription schools. He married Nancy McClure in 1843, and settled near Claysville, Guernsey county, Ohio, on a farm which he continued to cultivate up to within three years of his death, the last three years of his life living in New Concord. He was a very prosperous farmer and owned good property. He was a lifelong church member, and entered the United Presbyterian church when that was former here. In politics he was a democrat, was a man interested in the affairs of the county, and held many offices of trust in neighborhood. When he died in 1876 Muskingum county, Ohio, lost one of its most representative and intelligent men. Mrs. Moore, his wife, was a daughter of John and Mary (Ferguson) McClure. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, and a son of John and Nancy (Hutchison) McClure. The McClures are of Scotch-Irish de- 534 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. scent, and probably came to this country at an early date. John Jr. was one of three children: John Jr., Sarah (who married a Mr. Moore) and James. He grew to maturity and married in his native state, when he emigrated to Ohio, entered a farm here and became very well-to-do. His wife was the daughter of William Ferguson, and died in this county in 1864, he having died in 1820, at the age of fifty years. Mrs. Moore was the third of eight children : William, John (deceased), Nancy, Thomas, Margaret, Mary, James and Sarah. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were married in 1834, and lived on a farm in Guernsey county for thirty-six years. Mrs. Moore attends the United Presbyterian church, of which she has been a member for the past forty or fifty years. She is a cultured and refined lady, and an active worker for the church. S. R. Moore is a native of Champaign county Ohio, born January 8, 1840, and the son of David W. and Hannah (Heckman) Moore, natives of the Keystone state. The Moore and Heckman families were of Scotch and German origin respectively and were early emigrants to America. The paternal grandfather, Elijah Moore, was a native of Pennsylvania also, and one of the defenders of Baltimore. He was a successful farmer and followed that occupation in his native state until his death. His marriage resulted in the birth of a large family of children of whom there were seven sons, David W. (father of subject) being the eldest. The latter attained his growth in Pennsylvania, assisted on the farm and came to Ohio in the spring of 1839, locating in Champaign county. He made the journey in a one-horse wagon and brought his wife and her mother. There he resided until his death which occurred in the summer of 1851. He was the father of five children—four sons and a daughter, three sons and a daughter yet surviving: Samuel R., E. Hunter, James H., William J. (deceased) and Mrs. John Duncan. S. R. Moore was reared and educated in the common schools of his native county and early became familiar with the routine of farm life. On April 18, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Thirteenth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry and served four months. On August 8, 1862 he re-enlisted in Company G, Ninety-fifth regiment, Ohio Volunteer infantry, and served faithfully for three years. He was in the battle of Richmond, Ky., and was captured August 30, 1862, but was paroled shortly afterward; at the siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Spanish Fort, battle of Nashville and a number of smart skirmishes. He returned to his old home at the close of the war, but in October, 1865, came to Zanesville, where he commenced gardening and growing small fruit, subsequently branching out into a large nursery. He deals principally in fruit and shade trees, and has had the experience of many years in this busi ness, being classed as a practical and successful nurseryman. He has been secretary of the Muskingum County Horticultural society for a number of years] is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Lafayette lodge No. 79, and has been secretary of the same for five years. He is also a member of the Hazlet post No. 81, G. A. R. and past officer. He was junior and senior vice-commander of the post and served one term in each. Mr. Moore was married on June 8, 1871, to Miss Clara McCarty, a native of Zanesville, by whom he has two children: Lida E. and Daniel D. The family belong to the _____ church. William H. Moore, a prominent business man of Norwich, Ohio, and an esteemed resident of the same, was born September 19, 1851. He is a son of Robert M. and Anna (Cherry) Moore, and the grandson of John and Hannah (Paxton) Moore. The grandfather was twice married, first to Sarah Minteer, who died in Virginia and who bore him one child, William Moore (deceased), and then to our subject' s grandmother, the latter union resulting in the birth of these children: Mary Ann, Paxton, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Cynthia and Robert M. In 1816 Mr. and Mrs. Moore emigrated to Muskingum county and settled in Union township, near Norwich, on a farm now owned by Vincent Flegal. There they passed the closing scenes of their lives. John Moore was a prominent man in the whig party and took a deep interest in all political matters. He and family were members of the United Presbyterian church. His son, Robert M. Moore, was born in Augusta county, Va., April 2, 1808, and when but eight years of age, came with his parents to Muskingum county. His early life was spent on the farm opened up in Union township, by his father, and he attended the district schools of the neighborhood. After reaching mature years he began farming for himself (for he and his brother had conducted his father's farm, the latter following his trade, that of stone mason), and subsequently bought the estate from the other heirs. On February 11, 1835, he married Miss Anna Cherry, a native of Cherry Valley, Mount Pleasant township, Washington county, Penn., and the daughter of Moses and Jane (Atchinson) Cherry, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Philadelphia, Penn. Mrs. Cherry was the daughter of Matthew and Jane (Reed) Atchinson. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore were born seven children: John, residing in Bloomfield, Muskingum county, is a traveling salesman; Moses (deceased); Mary Jane (deceased); Adaline (died when about thirty years of age); Martha J., at home; Anna E., at home and William H. Robert M. Moore is now a resident of Norwich and has retired from the active duties of life, having reached his eighty-fourth year. He has ever been prominently identified with the prog- HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 535 ress and development of the county, and is one of its honest, whole-souled citizens. In politics he has advocated the principles of the republican party for many years, although formerly a whig, and he takes much interest still in the political issues of the day. He has been engaged in a number of business enterprises, but has made farming his life's occupation. A worthy member of the United Presbyterian church, he gives liberally of his means to further all laudable enterprises, and is particularly interested in church affairs. Mrs. Moore is also an active member of the United Presbyterian church. Of the seven children born to this worthy couple only four are now living. Their son, William H. Moore, remained on the home farm until thirteen years of age; he then moved to the village of Norwich, there attending school until he was twenty years of age, when he went on the railroad and continued on the same for about fifteen years. He started as brakeman and reached the position of conductor on the B. & 0. and on the P. & L. E. He left the road about 1886 and settled in Norwich, since which time he has been salesman in the store of Caldwell & Wilson of that town. Socially he is a member of the K. of P. lodge and a member of the B. of L. F. Like his father, Mr. Moore is a stanch republican and takes an active interest in politics. He is treasurer of the Eastern Muskingum Fair association, and is clerk of the Norwich Union School board. At present he is clerk of the city council, and clerk of Union township. He is a public spirited young man and is interested in all movements of a worthy nature. William Morgan, of Frazeysburg, Ohio, is one of the pioneer settlers of Muskingum county. His grandfather, Morgan Morgan, was born in Maryland and was married to Amanda Cailer, by whom he became the father of six children: Thomas, James, Levi, Richard, Amanda and Sallie. Mr. Morgan came with his family to Ohio and settled near Shannon, spending the remainder of his days on a farm, although he was a weaver by trade. He lived to be an old man, and for many years was an earnest member of the Baptist church. Thomas J. Morgan, his son, was born in Maryland in 1801, received the advantages of the common schools, and when a boy came with his parents to Ohio, where he was brought up to farm life. Upon reaching manhood he was married to Miss Keziah Wilson, daughter of Samuel Wilson, an old settler of Muskingum county, who came from England and lived near Shannon. To Thomas J. Morgan and his wife the following children were born : William, Isaac, Sarah, Harriet and Lavina. After his marriage Mr. Morgan settled in the woods near Frazeysburg where he bought and entered about 160 acres of land in 1828, which land he succeeded in clearing of heavy timber after many years of hard labor. Here he resided until his death in February, 1883, at the age of seventy-three years, at which time he was an earnest member of the Baptist church. He was very hardworking, industrious and conscientious, and all who knew him spoke a good word in his praise. William Morgan, his son, whose name heads this sketch, was born August 28, 1828, and in early life received a common-school education. His early life was spent in attending the common schools near his home and in assisting his father on the home place, and after reaching manhood he married Miss Ann Lloyd, a daughter of Eli Lloyd an old resident of Wheeling, W. Va., who settled near Dresden in an early day. He was the father of these children: Joseph, John, Margaret, William, Benson, Eli, Ann and Jesse. After his marriage Mr. Morgan remained on the home place for five years and then moved to near Dresden, where he purchased eighty acres of land and remained eleven years. In 1868 he came to his present farm, which is an admirably kept and valuable one. He is well known for industry and integrity and stands high as a citizen. He is a Baptist in his religious views but his wife is a member of the Christian church. He has always been interested in the public schools of his section and in the welfare of his county, and for seven years ably filled the position of county supervisor. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are the parents of three children: Thomas (who is married to Clara Kidd of this county), Wilson (who married Lizzie Paxton and is now farming in Illinois), and Rezin L. Morgan is still home on the place with his father. Col. H. D. Munson was born in Litchfield county, Conn., January 8, 1816, a son of Horace and Harriet (Gilbert) Munson, also natives of the Nutmeg state, and of English descent. The grandparents on both sides, Medad Munson and Asa Gilbert, were Revolutionary soldiers, and by occupation were farmers. They died in Connecticut when quite advanced in years. The father of the subject of this sketch was also a farmer by occupation, and lived and died in Connecticut. He was the father of one son and three daughters, only two of which family are now living—Col. H. D., and Mrs. Nancy Mariams, a resident of New Haven county, Conn. Col. H. D. Munson was reared in Litchfield county, Conn., and was educated principally in that county. In 1836 he came West and located at Alton. At an early age he manifested a decided taste for music, and while at Alton he was a teacher of music, and also taught in Monticello Female seminary. He remained in that vicinity for several years, and in Jacksonville and Springfield, Ill., and in 1846 came to Zanesville, Ohio, as a teacher in the Putnam Female seminary, where 536 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. he remained for four years. Succeeding this he taught music in the neighboring cities for one season, and in 1851 opened a music store on a small scale, which he conducted in connection with his teaching, and business increased so rapidly that in a short time he was enabled to largely increase his stock, and conducted it successfully until the opening of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company A, Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer infantry, which company he assisted in raising. He left home on February 11, 1862, as captain of his company, and served in this capacity until his resignation, February 22, 1863, on account of sickness. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, and after convalescing was made lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth regiment, and served on detached service in Baltimore, Md. By virtue of rank he was made president of military commission, and remained at Baltimore until the expiration of the 100 days' service, and was mustered out at Zanesville in 1864. During his absence his business was conducted by a man with whom he had made arrangements before leaving for the front, and after being mustered out he again took charge of his store and gradually increased his business to its present admirable proportions. He carries the largest stock of musical instruments in the city, and the firm is now known as H. D. Munson & Sons, his sons—Charles E. and H. D. Jr., being admitted as members of the firm in 1875. They are now doing an immense business, and give constant employment to several men. Too much can not be said in Mr. Munson's praise, for he came to the city a perfect stranger and without capital, save an abundant amount of pluck and perseverance, and although the people ridiculed the idea of his making money out of such an enterprise, he knew no such word as fail, and time has proven the wisdom of his judgment. He had no credit, and was forced to begin on a very small capital, but by judicious management has now one of the finest establishments in his line in the state. He has been a member of the board of education for six years, and has been for four years a member of the city council. He is president of the Muskingum County Historical society, and is a trustee of the same. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R., Hazlett post No. 81, in both of which he has been an active member. He was married in 1836 to Miss Mary Griggs, a native of Brimfield, Mass., by whom he became the father of eight children, seven of whom are living: Julia, Col. Gilbert D., William 0. (who was in the Third Ohio regiment during the war), Arthur F. (also in the army, in the Seventy-eighth Ohio), George (deceased), H. D. Jr., Charles E. and Mary (wife of N. H. Moore, of this city). Col. Munson and his wife are members of the Baptist church, in which he is a deacon, and he is in every respect a worthy citizen and an upright man. Washington Neff. Among the countless industries and enterprises of the United States there is none more important than the milling business, the occupation to which Mr. Neff gives his attention with such desirable results. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, October 1, 1845, near Duncan's Falls, to Samuel B. and Eunice (Reese) Neff, the father a native of Virginia, and a German by descent, and the mother a native of Putman, Ohio. Samuel B. Neff followed the occupation of farming throughout life, and is now a resident of Salt Creek township. Of four children born to himself and wife, Washington was next to the oldest, and during his attendance in the common schools he made the most of his opportunities and was better fitted than the ordinary to take upon himself the duties of life. At the age of twenty-five years he left his home to engage in the milling business, and this occupation has received his attention ever since. In 1889 he began working in the milling business at Chandlerville, and owing to the superior article which he manufactures his connection has become wide and is continually increasing. In addition to this business he also operates a sawmill, which is proving a profitable source of revenue. In 1878 he was married to Miss Maria Miller, daughter of John Miller, a native of Ohio, and from this union sprang four children, three of whom are living: Carrie M., Elvin Roland and Henry Millard. Mabel Swift died in early childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Neff worship in the Baptist church, and in politics Mr. Neff is a republican. He is a man whose career has been a most honorable and useful one, and in the esteem of all he holds a prominent place. Dr. O. M. Norman, a prominent practicing physician of Roseville, Muskingum county, Ohio, was born in Rappahannock county, Va., a short distance from the battlefield of Bull Run, in 1831. He was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary A. (Hackley) Norman. The father was a native of the same county where he was raised, and followed farming until 1836, when he settled on a farm in Newton township, Muskingum county, Ohio. The Norman family was very prominent in Virginia; and were of English and German descent. Joseph married a few years before he came to Ohio. He followed farming in Newton township for some time, sold out and moved to Perry township, where his wife died. He married again and moved to Park county, Indiana, in 1850, and here his death occurred in 1860. By his second wife he had four children. He had been a lifelong member of the Baptist church. His wife, Mary A. Hackley, was HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 537 the daughter of Joseph Hackley, a prominent planter of Rappahannock county, Va., and a large slave owner. He owned at one time seventy-five slaves and was a very wealthy man. The family are of English descent, and direct descendants of Lord Baltimore, the first governor of Virginia, whose name was Calvert, and Joseph Hackley's grandmother was a Calvert. Mary A., the mother of the Doctor, was a native of Rappahannock county, Va., born in 1811 or 1812, her death occurring in Perry county, this state, in 1845. She was the mother of six children: Dr. Oswald M., Joseph a farmer of Indiana, Oscar H. in the furniture business in Augusta, Ga., Amanda, now Mrs. Achre, living at Fultonham, Perry county, Rufus (deceased), and one died when young. The Doctor was but five years of age when his parents moved to this county. He attended the district school and later the Columbia college, and graduated from Cincinnati Medical college in 1858. He commenced his practice at Fultonham and about fifteen years ago located at Roseville, and since that time has been the most prominent medical man in this part of the county. He has always been a democrat in politics, and was a candidate for representative of the county. He takes a great interest in public matters, and was mayor of Roseville, and has held several other offices. He is a member of the County Medical association, and also of the State Medical society. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order and Odd Fellows, and has been for at least thirty years. In 1851 the Doctor married Jar e M. Wilson, of Fultonham, a daughter of John and Harriet Wilson. They had two children: Dewitt C. who is the proprietor of a drug store in Roseville, and Anna, the widow of James Taylor. She is living at home. The Doctor lost his wife in 1890, and he married again, Anna L. Baughman, a native of this county, and the daughter of Samuel and Ruth Baughman. The father is a prominent farmer of the county. Dr. Norman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife of the Lutheran church. The Doctor takes a great interest in educational matters, and is president of the school board of Roseville. He has accumulated a good property, and is one of the public-spirited men of the county. Benjamin Zane Norris, of Frazeysburg, Jackson township, Muskingum county, Ohio, is one of the oldest settlers and most reliable citizens in this part of the county. He was born about two miles north of Zanesville, Ohio, in this county, April 17, 1817, at a point then called Joe's run, but now known as Bailey's mill. His father, Isaac Norris, was a well known representative of an old American family of English descent. He emigrated with his household from Maryland, and was a pioneer farmer in this county. Before this, however, he had married Charity Conley, of Maryland, who bore him eight children: James D., John, Thomas, Elias, Mary A., Benjamin Z., Isaac and Charity, all of whom are natives of Ohio, Mr. Norris having come to the wilderness here directly after his marriage. He first settled two miles north of Zanesville, on Joe's tun, and after some years removed to the Gen. Van Horn farm below the Putnam hill. There his youngest daughter died, and not long afterward his wife died also. She was a Christian woman of the most noble character, and was a strict member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Norris lived to the advanced age of eighty-three years, and died a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. In his early days he was a school teacher, and in that capacity he became one of the pioneer educators of Muskingum county. For his time he was liberally educated, and possessed an exceedingly wide range of general and practical information. In his political opinions he was democratic, and at that comparatively early day, when to be constable meant more than it does at this time, he filled the office of constable for his township, in the performance of the duties of which he was brought in almost daily contact with the leading men of the county. A good and upright citizen, of great liberality and generosity, he always espoused the cause of right, as he understood it, and lent a helping hand to his neighbor in trouble, and he was one of that historic few who as pioneers cleared away the wilderness and battled against the dangers of life on the frontier, and, enduring all of its privations and discomforts, brought about the development of the present day by paving the way for those who should come after them. Benjamin Z. Norris was reared in his father's forest home, and well remembers the Indians who came and went in that neighborhood during his early life. The cabin in which the family lived was built of rough logs, with a puncheon floor, split clapboards constituting its door, and a stick chimney, daubed with clay, serving as the means of escape for the smoke from its primitive fireplace. In this humble dwelling most of his brothers and sisters were born, and here in a dense and almost limitless forest he passed his boyhood days. He attended school in a small log building, and, at the wish of his mother, attached himself to a Sunday school, whose sessions were held in Squire Boyd's barn. Later he attended a country school for about a year altogether, and thus his educational advantages may be summed up. He grew to manhood amid all of the rough experiences of a life on the frontier, but these were useful in forming a rugged, upright character. In 1840, when he was twenty-four years of age, he married Miss Martha J. Wimmer, a daughter of John and Lydia (Mendenhall) Wimmer, and they 538 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. are the parents of four children: Anna J., Lucy C., George W. and William J., all of them now living. After his marriage Mr. Norris settled on his brother John's farm, about one mile from his present residence in Jackson township, but remained there only a few weeks, when he moved into a small house on his present' farm, which was then the property of his wife's father. About five years afterward, Mr. and Mrs. Wimmer having died, Mr. and Mrs. Norris removed to their old home on the same farm, where they have since lived. In his religious views Mr. Norris is a Methodist, of which church his wife is a devout member. In politics he is a democrat, and his influence in local affairs has been by no means slight. Among the few official positions which he }has been prevailed upon to accept may be mentioned that of township trustee and that of a member of the board of supervisors of Muskingum county. He has taken an active interest in the cause of education, and has done as much as any other one man in his part of the county to build up and maintain schools. For eighteen years he has served as school director, and officially and otherwise he has done everything in his power toward the betterment of the educational facilities of his township. All his life long he has been industrious in the extreme, and he has always been known as a hardworking, persevering man. His life has been honorable and full of self sacrifice, and has resulted in the good of the community in which he has so long lived. For a large portion of such success as he has attained he renders thanks to his good wife, who by her advice and encouragement, has done much to assist him in all things. He sees no reason to complain of the lack of that prosperity which is the legitimate reward of a life of honest endeavor, as he has accumulated about $50,000, and, being of the wise opinion that it is better for a man to dispose of his own property while he lives than to leave it to be divided among the lawyers at his death, he has apportioned much of it among his children. Possessing a naturally strong constitution, which he has never impaired by over indulgence of any kind, he is hale and vigorous at the age of seventy-five, retaining the practical common sense, and the bright and intelligent mind of a man of one-half his years. His life of probity and honest purpose should be emulated by the youth of the present generation. John Wimmer, the father of Mrs. Norris, was of German descent. His father came from Germany and settled in Charlestown, W. Va., and there married Catherine Diffenbough, a young lady of property and high social standing, who bore him six children: Adam, William, John, Mary, Margaret and Elizabeth. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wimmer died in Charlestown, W. Va. John Wimmer was born in 1788, and married Lydia Mendenhall, of Charlestown, W. Va., who was of English descent. They became the parents of eight children: Richard C., Samuel, Thomas G., Lydia, Esther, Martha, Jane and Hannah. Mr. Wimmer came to Muskingum county in 1825, and settled on Wakatomaka creek, at the point known as Mendenhall's Mill, and after six years removed to the farm now occupied by Mr. Norris, upon which, in 1841, fifty years ago, he built the old house in which Mr. and Mrs. Norris now live. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was both class-leader and steward, and it may well be said of him that he was a man of industry, and a man of noble character, whose word was literally as good as his bond. Samuel Mendenhall, the grandfather of Mrs. Norris, came from Virginia, and bought 1,300 acres of land in this county. He built Mendenhall's mill, and at his death left 160 acres of land to each of his children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Norris are descended from good stock, and their offspring may well be honestly proud of the sterling ancestry from which they sprang. Their daughter, Lucy C. Norris, married Isaac Franks, of Columbus, Ohio, and they have five children: Annie M., Edward C., Clara B., Myrtie A. and Clark F. Hannah J. Norris married Clark Bell, a merchant of Frazeysburg; John W. Norris married Louisa J. Bennett, and has four children: Adelbert B., Zane C., Laura T. and Mattie B. William J. Norris married Matilda Moore, and has one child, a son, Benjamin F. Norris. M. J. O'Niel, councilman, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is- a descendant of good Irish stock, his father, John O'Niel, having been born in Killmare, Ireland, in 1821. The elder O'Niel came to America in 1847, and in 1851 settled in Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio. He married Miss Margaret Shea, and to them were born nine children: Michael 3„ Mary, Hannah, Kate, Lizzie (died in infancy), Nelly, Etta, Josephine and John. Mr. O'Niel was a steady, hard-working man, and for over forty years was engaged with the Pan Handle railroad, his labors only ending with his death. He was honest, upright, and faithfully discharged all his duties. He came to this country to make a home for his family and accomplished his object, leaving his family in comfortable circumstances at his death. In politics he was a stanch democrat and always appreciated his privilege as an American citizen. He was a member of the Catholic church and was a kind husband and an affectionate father. His death occurred in 1890 at the age of sixty-nine years. His son Michael J. O'Niel, subject of this sketch, was born in Hanover township, Licking county, Ohio, July 25, 1853, and at an early age learned the trade of telegraph operator, working on the Pan Handle railroad for twenty-two HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 539 years. He received a common-school education and on June 14, 1868, he began work at Hanover Station, Licking county, being at that time but fifteen years of age. He soon gained and maintained a record for reliability, expertness and attention. He was station agent and operator at Adams Mills, Muskingum county, for ten years, and at Frazeysburg for four years and a half. In 1875 he married Miss Emily M. Davidson, daughter of Hiram and Mary (Boyd) Davidson. The Davidsons were early settlers at Zanesville. To Mr. and Mrs. O'Niel have been born two children: Charles B., and Blanche, who died when but a babe. Mr. O'Niel has been a resident of Frazeysburg for nine years and is one of the substantial men of the county, possessing considerable property, mostly real estate. In politics he is a republican. Socially he is an Odd Fellow and has been secretary and warden of his lodge. He holds membership in the Catholic church. Mr. O'Niel is a self-made man, having started with nothing, and has accumulated all his property by the sweat of his brow. As a citizen and neighbor he is well liked, and for the last six years he has held the position of councilman of Frazeysburg. It may be said of Mr. 0' Niel that his promises are always fulfilled and his word is as good as his bond. He comes of a sterling race of people and to-day the Irish-Americans fillmany important offices and are among the most prominent citizens. Eli Osler, farmer and stockraiser, New Concord, Ohio, was the eldest son born to Edward and Lydia (McGee) Osler, and the grandson of William Osler, who was? native of Baltimore county, Md., in which county he died when over one hundred years of age. He was a farmer by occupation. Edward Osler was also a native of Baltimore county, Md., born 1781, and in 1814 he came to Highland township, this county. He was married in Maryland, and his first wife, who was a Miss Bond, died there. After coming to Highland township he settled on a farm of 160 acres taken from the government and although a soldier in the War of 1812, he received no pension, drawing only his land warrant. He made his home in that township until his death in 1862. His second marriage occurred in Baltimore county, Md., in 1815, to Miss Lydia McGee, a native of that county. The fruits of this union were nine children: Charity, married William Starrett, of Highland township; Ann, married George McCaughey, who died in Zanesville in 1889; Eli (subject) Providence, who died in childhood, Providence, who is living in Adamsville; Zachariah, a resident of Highland township; Dorcus, died in 1880; James, who is living on the homestead of his father, and Rachel was the wife of William Armstrong, of Salem township [see sketch], and died in 1890. The parents of these children were lifelong members of the Baptist church and were deeply interested and took a prominent part in all church work as well as all other enterprises for the advancement of the county. The father followed agricultural pursuits for a livelihood and was fairly successful. He was at one time a whig in politics but later he became a republican. He and wife experienced many hardships when they first settled in this county, but they had the true pioneer spirit and became useful and well-respected citizens. Eli Osler was born on a farm in Highland township, Muskingum county, August 22, 1819, and except a few years when he worked at the carpenter's trade, he has followed agricultural pursuits all his life. He was married in 1849 to Miss Nancy Caughey, a native of Washington county, Penn.. born June 15, 1827, and the daughter of William and Jane (Stewart) Caughey. Her parents came to Ohio in 1828, settled in Highland township, and there Mrs. Osler was reared. She was one of the following children: Jane, who died in 1840; Rebecca, who is Mrs. Martin of Highland township; Mary A., who died in 1840; Nancy; Nathaniel, died in 1840; William, a farmer of Kansas; Sarah, wife of James Osler of Highland township, and Eliza, who died in 1840. The four children who died in 1840 had scarlet fever, and passed away in a few days of each other. The father died in 1868 and the mother in 1876, aged respectively, eighty and ninety-one years. Both held membership in the United Presbyterian church, and he was a republican in politics. The father was a public-spirited citizen and one of the thrifty, industrious farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Osler are members of the United Presbyterian church, and he has held official positions in the same for the past twenty-five years. In 1841 he began working for himself and in 1850 he bought a farm of eighty acres in Highland township. Later he sold this and then bought 160 acres near New Concord, and this farm is one of the best improved and most valuable in this part of the county. He has been successful as a tiller of the soil and in connection with farming he annually raises sheep and cattle in large numbers. The family have nearly 500 acres in this county. To his marriage were born five children: Martin L. was born in 1851 and is now residing in the West where he was married; S. C. was born in 1855, and married Miss Anna Cornell of Columbus, (they have one child, Charles;) William E., born in 1857, married Miss Anna Scott of Bloomfield, and has three children; Harrold S., Jessie A., and Hester; Frank, was born in 1861 and is now an attorney of Cincinnati where he has resided for the past two years; he attended law school in that city, and is now a successful exponent of the law; and Lydia J., who was born in 1865 and is now at home. Mr. and Mrs. Osler have taken a great deal of pains to educate their children, 540 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. and their daughter has made a speciality of music, studying with some of the best instructors of music, Mr. Osler and his four sons are members of the republican party. James Osler is one of the leading pioneer farmers of Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and was born on the farm upon which he now resides, in 1827. He was the youngest but one of the nine children born to the union of Edward and Lydia (McGee) Osler, old settlers of Carroll county, Md. Edward was one of a large family, and remained home until he was thirty-two years of age. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He received a limited education, and emigrated to this county about 1814, settling on a farm south of New Concord. He entered the farm upon which our subject now lives, about 1815 or 1816, and took up 160 acres. Before coming to Ohio he married Lydia McGee, of his native state, and they were the parents of nine children. They were members of the Baptist church, and in politics he was a whig. He was devoted to his home and endeavored to give all his children good educations. He died in 1862. His wife was born in Carroll county, Md. Their children are named as follows: Charity (now Mrs. Starrett, living on the Bloomfield road, north of New Concord); Ann (married George McCaughey, of Zanesville. She died, Christmas, 1890, leaving a family. The children are all grown and married: Ely [see sketch], Zachariah (lives in Highland township, a man of family), Providence (died in childhood), Providence (living at Adamsville, Salem township), Doricus (died at the age of thirty years), James (our subject), and Rachel (was the wife of William Armstrong, deceased, and died New Year's day, 1890). The mother of this family was a member of the Baptist church, one of the noblest of women, loved and respected by all, and an earnest worker in all church matters. She died in February, 1877. James Osler's early life was spent on a farm, attending school in winter and working on the farm in summer. At the age of thirty years he became the owner of the farm that he had up to that time managed. He was married, in June, 1857, to Sarah Caughey, who was born in Highland township in 1832, and was the daughter of William and Jane (Stewart) Caughey. William Caughey was of Irish descent, born in Washington county, Penn., and came to this county about 1830, settling in this part of the township. Mrs. Osler was one of eight children: Jane, Rebecca, Mary A., Nancy, Nathan, William, Sarah and Eliza. Mary A., Jane, Eliza and Nathan all died in one week, of scarlet fever, in 1840. The parents were members of the United Presbyterian church. In politics the father was a whig, a good farmer, and died in 1867, his wife dying in 1878. James Osler attended Muskingum college and taught there five or six years, and was classed among the educators of that county. In 1854 he took charge of the farm, and since that time has been farming and, devoted his entire time and attention to that pursuit. To himself and wife were born four children: John (a railroad man, of Kansas); Edward (at home, attending his father's farm); Andrew B. (resides at home, is a school teacher, and considered one of the finest educators in the county. He has been teaching five years); Margaret A. (at home, and attending school). Mrs. Osler is a member of the United Presbyterian church, and is a lady active in church work. Mr. Osler is a republican in politics, is a man of cool judgment, and has held many offices of trust in the county. He was on the school board, and gives much of his time and means to the support of the schools. He is a successful farmer and good business man, and owns a nicely improved farm of 115 acres. His postoffice is Sago, his residence being one and one half miles from the town. He was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in May, 1864, and served 100 days. He was in the battle of Harper's Ferry. S. C. Osler is a prominent and successfulyoung farmer of Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, and the owner of 280 acres of well improved land. He is the second child of Eli Osler, and was born March 2, 1855. Since his second year he has lived on the old home farm and attended school in the Jamieson school district. At the age of twenty-five years he started for himself and took charge of the farm upon which he now resides. In 1884 he went to Kansas and located at Valley Center, Sedgwick county, where he remained one year when he returned home and turned his attention to farming and stockraising. In 1889 he married Anna Cornell, a daughter of John W. and Margery (McBride) Cornell. The father was a son of William and Permelia (Inks) Cornell, who came from Washington county, Penn., and settled in Franklin county near Columbiana, when the country was new, and when Columbiana had only one log cabin. This farm is still owned by some of the family. William Cornell died some years ago and his wife died in 1882, at the age of nearly ninety years. They reared a family of nine children: Sarah, Lucinda, Mary, Jacob, William, Jane, Levi, John and Anna. Levi and Jane are deceased, and all resided in Ohio except Mary, who lived in Iowa. John W. Cornell, their son, was born in 1827 and is still living in Franklin county, near the home place, a farmer, and in politics a republican. Mrs. Cornell was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1837, the daughter of William and Margery McBride. She was eleven years of age when her parents came to this county and settled in Highland township about 1849. The parents spent the remainder of HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 541 their lives in this county. The father was killed in 1862 and his wife died in 1886. They were the parents of eight children: Jane, Sarah, Mary, Eliza, Alexander, Margery, Rachel and Nancy. Of these two are deceased, Sarah and Nancy. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell were married in this township and went to live in Franklin county. They were the parents of these children: Ola (the wife of Charles Evans, and living in Franklin county), Jennie, Anna (the wife of S. C. Osler), William, Frank and Charles. Mrs. Cornell is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Osler was born in Franklin county, in July 8, 1865, attended the district schools and was married in 1889, as before stated, to the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Osler are members of the United Presbyterian church and attend at Bloomfield. They have only one child, Charles C., born January 7, 1890. Mr. Osler is a republican in politics and interested in all church and school work, giving his time and attention to the same. Among the prominent young farmers of Highland township, Muskingum county, Ohio, must be mentioned William E. Osier, who was born on the farm on which he now resides, December 20, 1857, and was the third child of Ely and Nancy (Caughey) Osler. He attended the Jamison district schools of this neighborhood and later worked on the farm. In 1884 he married Anna A. Scott, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Scott, of this township. Mr. Osler is a republican in politics and holds a membership in the U. P. church, of Bloomfield. In 1889 he engaged in the management of a 160-acre farm of which he is the owner, he has made it one of the best in the county, does general farming and stock-raising, raising sheep principally. Mrs. Osler was born in this township October 10, 1864, and was here reared and educated. Her parents moved from Washington county, Penn., and lived here nine years, when they moved to Highland township. They are the parents of four children: Anna, Hester, Maggie and Mary, all living. Hester married Mr. Farrar and is living in Pennsylvania, and Maggie married Dr. Lamm, of Bloomfield. Mr. and Mrs. Osler are the parents of four bright children: Herald, Jessie, Hester, and Bertha the baby. They are members of the U. P. church. Anderson Judkins Parker, M. D., No. 44 Fourth street, Zanesville, Ohio, is one of the rising physicians of this part of the state. He was born at Chesterfield, Ohio, in 1856, a son of Dr. Isaac Parker, who located there in 1845. After a thorough academic course he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. N. Wright of his native place. He graduated from Miami Medical college, of Cincinnati, in 1881, and immediately entered upon the active practice of his profession at Chesterfield, there he was successful and promi nent until, desiring a wider field, he came to Zanesville. January 1888. Here he found favor in a marked degree, his practice now being three times as extensive as it was two years ago. Hav- ing need of assistance, in April, 1890, he took as a partner Dr. C. M. Rambo, a graduate of Starling Medical college, Columbus. For some years Dr. Parker was a leading and active member of the Muskingum Valley District Medical society, and is now a member of the Morgan County Medical society, of the Zanesville Medical society, the Cincinnati Medical society and also the Hildreth Medical society. He is surgeon for the Zanesville Street Railway company, for the B. Z. & C. R. R., also on the medical staff of the Zanesville City hospital and has served as physician to the county jail, surgeon to the county infirmary and the Z. & 0. R. R. R. That his reputation has extended far beyond the borders of the county is attested by the fact that he was recently elected a member of the Cincinnati City Medical society. Dr. Parker is of the third generation of physicians in his family, his grandfather and father having been physicians of good standing. He has a young son through whom he expects to hand down the mantle of his fathers to generations yet to come. Dr. Parker is an accomplished physician as his rapidly growing practice testifies. He takes great interest in educational matters and for a number of years was president of the school board of Chesterfield. That he has a bright future before him, professionally and otherwise, those who know him best are most eager to assert. He was married in 1876, to Miss Mintie Patterson, of Chesterfield. Dr. Rambo his partner is a native of Hopewell township, this county, and was educated at the State Normal school, Valparaiso, Ind., and at Ohio university, Athens, Ohio. Samuel Parks, farmer, Frazeysburg, a descendant of one of the old and very prominent families of Muskingum county, Ohio, is now one of the wealthy and esteemed citizens of that county. His father, William Parks, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in County Donegal, Ireland, August 25, 1795. He was one of three sons—James, David and William, born to Samuel Parks, and was early initiated into the duties of farm life. He was educated in the common schools, and when grown married Miss Jane Stevenson, daughter of Allen and Elizabeth Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson was also of Scotch-Irish descent, and he and wife passed their entire days in Ireland. After his marriage Mr. Parks came to America (1821) and landed at St. Johns, New Brunswick. From there they went to Baltimore, and after a year there went to New York, settling at Harlem, where he managed a farm for Harmon Le Roy for seven years. Mr. Le Roy was a wealthy French trader. 542 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. In 1829 Mr. Parks came to Ohio and settled in Jackson township, on the farm now owned by his son, Samuel, and here reared his family of ten children; William, John, Samuel (who died in infancy), Eliza J., Isabella, James, Samuel, Margaret, Mary, and one who died in infancy. William and John died at the ages of nine and five respectively. Eliza J. married James Still, of Muskingum township, this county. James was a soldier in the One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, and died in the hospital at Baltimore, leaving a wife and six children. Dr. Parks, of Frazeysburg, is his son. Margaret died at the age of twenty-two. Mary married R. H. Kilpatrick, a farmer, and they live in Licking county, Ohio. When William Parks settled on his farm it was almost a wilderness, but by hard work he cleared it up and built a comfortable log house, the immense stone chimney of which is still standing, with its vast fireplace, built over fifty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Parks were devout covenanters, held strictly to this faith and brought up their family in this belief. Mr. Parks was a man of strong mind and excellent judgment, and was respected and esteemed by all acquainted with him. The substantial buildings erected on his farm are still standing. He lived to be eighty-seven years of age, and died February 10, 1883. He was one of those pioneers who were among the foremost in building up the county, in fact one of the real founders of the state of Ohio and the man who made possible the pleasant homes of to-day. Samuel Parks (our subject) was born October 2, 1835, and supplemented a common-school education by attending school at West Bedford, Ohio, and Oberlin college, thus receiving a good education, although he did not complete his collegiate studies. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school in his own school district, afterward taught one year in Illinois, and then followed his profession in Texas for two years. He subsequently traveled extensively in the Lone Star state, and in 1858 began teaching near San Antonio. Returning to Ohio he taught school during the winter months and worked on the farm in the summer. He was one of the early educators of Muskingum county, teaching most of the time for twenty years, and wielded a wide influence for good in educational matters. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, and Miss Isabella Parks, his sister, who lives with him, is a strict Covenanter. He has been township trustee, served his district as school director for many terms, and has held other local positions. He now owns a valuable farm and has excellent buildings, etc. He is a man of liberal views, owns a large library of choice books, and is an extensive reader. He is progressive in his views, and is classed among the well-informed men of the parish. In politics he affiliates with the republican party. His sister, Miss Isabella, who keeps house for him, is an accomplished and very pleasant lady. Nowhere within the limits of Muskingum county, Ohio, can be found a man more highly respected, or for conscientious discharge of duty in every relation of life, more worthy of respect and esteem, than Rev. David Paul who has been pastor of the United Presbyterian church at New Concord since 1876. He was born in Belmont county, Ohio, five miles north of St. Clairsville, April 22, 1827, and was the third in a family of six children born to Andrew and Nancy (Walace) Paul. Andrew Paul remained in his native country, Ireland, until eighteen years of age, after which he came to this country and settled in Belmont county, where he engaged in work with David Walace, afterward marrying his eldest daughter. He followed farming as his occupation in life and was a good citizen. He was a member of the Associate Reformed church. Of his children only three are now living, and David is the only one in this state. Mr. Paul moved his family from Belmont to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1839, and there his estimable wife died the same year. He subsequently moved to Iowa, where he passed the closing scenes of his life, his death occurring in 1860. His children were named in the order of their births as follows: Margaret (who died at the age of sixteen years), Julia A. (who is residing in Pawnee City, Neb.), David Paul (subject), Mary (who died when twelve years of age), Eliza J. (who died in this county after reaching womanhood), and William W. (who resides at Clarence, Iowa). Mr. Andrew Paul was a whig in early days, but his last votes were cast with the republican party. His wife was a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and was the daughter of David and (Carson) Walace. The early life of David Paul was spent in Belmont county, and when about twelve years of age he came with his parents to Guernsey county. He was trained to the arduous duties of the farm and remained on the same until 1846, when he entered the freshman class of Muskingum college, having kept up his studies under the instruction of Rev. Hugh Forsythe of Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio, while working on his father's farm. Mr. Paul has plowed many and many a day with his book fastened on the handles of his plow. He remained four years in Muskingum college and was graduated in 1850. The following year he started to study theology at Oxford, Ohio, and was professor of languages in Geneva Hall for one year. After this he spent one winter at Allegheny city and on June 9, 1852, was licensed to preach, and ordained December 13, of the following year, being installed HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 543 pastor of the S. R. church at Cannonsburg, Penn., when he remained until 1855. He then received a call and acted as pastor at Mansfield, Ohio, from April, 1857, until 1865. He was president of Muskingum college from the last date until June, 1879. During that time he was pastor of Norwich church from August 19, 1869, until January, 1872, and at East Union from 1872 until 1876. On September 19, 1876, he was installed pastor of the church at New Concord, and since his resignation of the presidency of Muskingum college has given his entire attention to church work. He is greatly interested in religious and educational matters, and has probably done more to further the interests of the same in Muskingum county than any other man. He is a man of superior natural mental endowments, is eminently capable of filling any position, and is an intelligent and devoted Christian. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Paul was married October 11, 1853, to Miss Sarah J. Russell, a native of Washington county, Penn. She was the daughter of Reuben and Mary (Harper) Russell, born in 1834. She was the eldest of eight children —seven daughters and a son. Mr. and Mrs. Paul's union was blessed by the birth of seven children: Mary A. (died at the age of sixteen years), Ella (the wife of W. R. Harper of the Chicago university), Lizzie J. (died when but one year old), William W. (a traveling man), Anna L. (died at the age of one year), Blanche R. (also died when about a year old), and Jessie L. (at home, attending school). Mr. Paul lost his devoted wife April 30, 1891. Among the highly respected and much esteemed citizens of the community in which he lives is Andrew Pletcher, farmer, Deavertown, Ohio, a native of Morgan county, born November 3, 1820. He is the son of Samuel Pletcher and the grandson of Henry Pletcher. The former was born in Loudoun county, Va., and when when about twenty-one years of age he came with his father to Ohio, driving a six horse team all the way from his native state. They settled in York township, Morgan county, where the father tilled the soil for many years. Samuel P. was educated in the German language in Virginia, and when twenty-two years of age he married Miss Anna M. Smith, who was a native of the Keystone state, but who came to Morgan Ohio, with her parents a number of years previous to her marriage. Mr. Pletcher's father gave him 160 acres of land in Morgan county after his marriage, and on this he resided until his death, on the 26th of February, 1882, when eighty-seven years of age. His wife died June 29, 1877, at the age of seventy-seven years. Both were members of the Lutheran church and able supporters of the same. Andrew Pletcher, subject of this sketch, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, November 3, 1820, and, like many of the old pioneers, received his education in the log schoolhouse, with split logs for seats, and greased paper for window glass. He being the eldest child at home, much of the hard work and responsibility of taking care of a large family fell upon his shoulders. He remained at home until twenty-two years of age, and on the 17th of November, 1842, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel Thomas, a native of Loudoun county, Va., born December 6, 1819. Mrs. Pletcher came to Morgan county, Ohio, with her parents, who located on the farm now owned, by Mr. Pletcher. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pletcher rented land in different parts of Morgan county, but later they bought sixty acres in Brush Creek township, on which he resided for nine years. Then selling out he bought his present property, consisting of 144 acres, and is now classed among the thrifty and industrious men of the county. He has, at different times, held a number of the township offices and filled them in a very satisfactory manner. Politically he was formerly an old line whig, and to this day he supports its principles by voting the republican ticket. He was at one time a member of the Lutheran, but of late years he has held membership in the United Brethren church of Morgan county. During the war he did not serve but was held as a reserve by the government. His eldest son, William, was out in the 100 days' service. His children, eight in number, were named in the order of their births as follows: William W., Mary E., Hiram A. Susanna C., Levia L., John A., Phoebe A. and Sarah J. Mary and Sarah are deceased. Mrs. Pletcher died on the 15th of Feburary, 1884. Henry Pletcher Sr., was the founder of the Pletcher family in the state of Ohio. He was probably born, reared and married in Loudoun county, Va., from which place he came to this state, settling in York township, Morgan county, at which time his family consisted of the following children: John, Samuel, Henry, Solomon, Jacob, Susannah (wife of William Swingle and in her ninetieth year,) Mary (wife of Andrew Spring), Catherine, (wife of John Weller), Elizabeth, (wife of Michael Stone-burner), Sarah (wife of John Good). Mr. Pletcher was in affluent circumstances when he came to Ohio, having brought with him in cash $15,000, which was considered a fine fortune in those days. After selling his land in Virginia for $100 per acre, he, upon his arrival in Ohio, purchased 160 acres of land for each of his ten children, every one of whom settled on the tract given them and lived on the same during their lives. They reared families and were honored and respected wherever known. Mr. Pletcher died in the state of his adoption, after a life filled with kind and charitable deeds. Henry Jr., his son, was born in Loudoun county, 544 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. Va, in 1804 and at the time of his arrival in Ohio, was fourteen years of age. In his native state he learned to read and write the German language and after coming to Ohio he attended school and acquired a practical education in the English language. He was married to Jane, daughter of Nicholas Deitrick, and to their union the following children were born : Sarah, wife of Isaac Cohagan (deceased), Susannah (deceased), William, Henry, Nicholas, Noah, Mary J. (widow of Harrison Turner), Hiram and George. On their farm in Morgan county, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Pletcher lived and died, the former departing his life February 4, 1884 and the latter August 17, 1870, at the age of seventy-six years. Both were members of the Lutheran church and lived in strict Christian conformity to the requirements of their religious faith. Mrs. Pletcher was noted far and wide for her kindness in sickness and affliction and always gladly responded to the calls of those in distress. Through exposure from such labors she injured her health, which was the indirect cause of her death. Mr. Pletcher was always an earnest worker in the church and was one of its prominent official members, never shirking a duty when work was imposed, but cheerfully performing every task assigned. William Pletcher, his son, was born in York township, Morgan county, Ohio, October 13, 1831, was reared on the home farm and obtained a fair education in the old time subscription schools. He remained with his father until he attained his majority and on December 25, 1851, he was married to Miss Sarah Ann Stambrook, after which for one year, he lived on his father's homestead. He then rented the Stambrook farm for three years, after which he purchased a part of his present farm, which at the present time consists of 200 acres. This land was quite heavily covered with timber, but he cleared it and erected thereon a commodious residence, 40x40 feet, which was unfortunately destroyed by fire on June 17, 1888. On its site Mr. Pletcher has erected his present well-appointed residence. He and his wife have six children born to them: James H., Winfield S., Mary J. (wife of Jesse T. Baughman), Alice (wife of Albert Dozer), Elzina, Clara Elwilda. He and his wife have long been connected with the Lutheran church, in which he has held official position. Henry Stambrook, his father-in-law, was born in Pennsylvania, in which state his grandfather settled on landing on the shores of this country, being afterward killed by the Indians. Henry Stambrook was married twice; his first wife bore him eight children, their names being: Abraham, Polly, wife of Philip Leffler, and the following who are deceased: Jacob, Peter, Henry, Susan, who became the wife of Archie Mann, Katie, who married Samuel Leffler, and Elizabeth, who became the wife of Peter Bailey. All these children accompanied their father to Muskingum county, Ohio. He married his second wife in Pennsylvania also, her name being Eva Catherine Leffler, a daughter of Adam Leffler. Three children were born to this union prior to their coming to this state: Adam, Frederick and John. Mr. Stambrook settled on 160 acres of wild land, heavily covered with timber, the same farm on which Francis Swingle now lives, and while a cabin was being constructed, the family lived in wagons, in which they had come to this region, and their sleep was often disturbed by prowling animals which infested the forest, or by the scream of a panther or the howl of a wolf. After reaching this state six children were born to Mr. Stambrook and his second wife: Mattie, who became the wife of Matthias Smith (deceased); Margaret is the widow of Peter Leffler; Solomon is deceased; Philip resides in Morgan county; Sarah Ann is the wife of William Pletcher of Brush creek, and James, who resides in Kansas. On the land on which they first settled, Mr. and Mrs. Stambrook lived out their natural lives, having enjoyed much prosperity. Mr. Stambrook held some minor offices and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church and took an active interest in all religious and moral works. He was an exemplary man in every respect and was a true type of the useful pioneer settler. Politically he was a democrat. Samuel R. Porter, farmer, Hopewell, Ohio, whose success in life is mainly due to his industry and perseverance, coupled with a pleasant, genial disposition, is a native of Hopewell township, Muskingum county, Ohio, born May 31, 1820. His paternal grandfather, William Porter, was a native of the Emerald Isle, born October 20, 1753; landed in America August 24, 1773; was married January 31, 1775, and died April 17, 1821, in Erie county, Penn. His maternal grandfather, John Richey, was born In York county, Penn., July 8, 1755. Mary Welch, John Richey's wife was born in the same state and county, May 23, 1760, and died January 6, 1835, both dying in Muskingum county, Ohio. Their family consisted of ten sons and four daughters, one of the daughters, Mrs. Jennett Null is still living in Muskingum county at the age of ninety-five years. They had 120 grandchildren. William Porter Jr., came to Muskingum county, Ohio, February, 1814, and located on what is now the Porter homestead, which still remains in the family, being owned by Joseph Porter. He was married to Miss Mary in 1806, eight years prior to their removal to Ohio. He followed agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred on June 17, 1833, his wife having died on the 14th of same month, preceding him to the spirit land by three days and nine hours. Their family consisted HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 545 of thirteen children, twelve of whom reached mature years, and eight of whom are now living. Samuel R., Joseph, and Mrs. Esther Starkey, of Hopewell, Muskingum county, Ohio, Mrs. Mary Colvin of Indianapolis, Mrs. Margaret Landes of Streator, Ill., Mrs. DeWoolf of Franklin county, Mrs. Dr. Spencer of Newark, Ohio, and Solomon S., of Bloomington, Ill. Samuel R. Porter, the subject of this sketch, spent his early life on his father's farm in Hopewell township and attended school at very irregular intervals, most of his studying was done while at work, and he thus received a very good practical education. When nineteen years of age he began teaching school and continued to teach for about fifteen years, both in Muskingum and Licking counties. On October 2, 1858, he was examined as a candidate, both for deacon's and elder's orders, was ordained on the following day, was then admitted into the annual conference of the Methodist church, and stationed in Portsmouth, Ohio. He has filled a number of appointments and still loves to preach, which he often does when his health will permit. In 1844 he purchased his first piece of land, being a lot of fifty acres, but instead of moving to it he sold it and bought and removed to a farm in Licking county. He bought and sold not less than ten separate pieces of land before purchasing the home on which he now resides, a part of which was bought in 1868, and the remainder in 1872. The farm consists of about 220 acres, with 175 acres under cultivation, about 100 acres of which is underlaid with a fine vein of coal which in places is six feet in thickness. Mr. Porter's son operates the mine. The coal is mostly used in the vicinity, there being no railroad near. Mr. Porter has been three times married, first to Miss Sarah Griffith, June 6, 1844, a daughter of Daniel and Sarah Griffith, natives of Maryland; Mrs. Porter died in 1848, leaving one daughter, now Mrs. Edith Bell, living in Licking county. In 1852 Mr. Porter married Miss Emily M. Griffith, a sister of his former wife, who died in 1857, leaving two children, Ella and Charles Fremont, both living in Hopewell township. On December 29, 1875, Mr. Porter married Miss Rachel Henry, daughter of William and Eunice (Carpenter) Henry, a distant relative of Patrick Henry. To this union were born three children, Jennie Florence, Emma Delia and one who died in infancy. He is always interested in educational matters. In politics he was an old line whig, but is now a republican. He has great generation for the Scriptures, which he reads and studies by day and by night and talks of first and last, in public and private circles they are always uppermost with him. J. S. Prettyman is the senior member of the firm of Prettyman & Bush, of Dresden, Ohio, who are engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods and are doing an exceedingly prosperous business. He was born in the present county of Noble (then Monroe), Ohio, April 7, 1846, being a son of L. A. and Mary (Shankland) Prettyman; the former of whom was born in Delaware in 1817 and died in Noble county, Ohio, in 1883. He was an honest "son of the soil " and was one of the substantial and progressive residents of the section in which he resided. His widow was born in Ohio in 1826, and at the present time makes her home in Dresden. J. S. Prettyman is their only child and on his father's farm in Noble county he was brought up to a knowledge of agriculture. He was an attendant of the common schools near his home in boyhood, and in 1867 began life for himself as a clerk in a store, continuing until 1870. He then went to West Virginia, and in connection with a Mr. Penn opened a mercantile establishment in that state, under the firm name of Penn & Prettyman. He remained at Cameron, W. Va., for two years, at the end of which time he returned to Noble county, Ohio, and still continued the mercantile business, purchasing his partner's interest in 1876, after which he conducted affairs on his own responsibility until 1883. In November, 1887, he moved to Caldwell, Ohio, and in January, 1888, began the manufacture of woolen goods, but the destruction of the mill by fire, January 12, 1889, put an end to the business for some time. On February 2 he went East to purchase new machinery for the mill at Dresden, after having contracted to locate here on the first of that month. The mill was put in operation, April 15, 1889, and has been in active operation ever since. It is well managed and the product which is turned out has become well known for its excellence. Politically Mr. Prettyman is a stanch republican and socially is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. He belongs to the G. A. R., having served in Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-first Volunteer infantry in the 100 days' service. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been married twice, first, November 14, 1872, to Miss M. A. Penn, who died April 29, 1881, leaving two children: Frank L. and W. P. (who has since died). His second marriage was celebrated in 1885, Miss E. E. Philpot, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, becoming his wife. Mrs. Jane Pringle, relict of Dr. G. W. Pringle, was born in Rich Hill township, this county, and is a lady of more than ordinary culture and intelligence. Dr. Pringle was also a native of Muskingum county, and was a prominent physician in the same until his death. His Grandfather Pringle, was born in London, England, but when a young man went to Ireland and was married there to Miss Elizabeth Whitside. After the first child 546 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. was born they crossed the ocean to America, and here the remainder of their children were born: John, William, Henry, Nancy, Sally and Betsy. Henry Pringle was the Doctor's father, and his birth occurred on the 13th of June, 1770. He died of consumption on the 1st of November, 1823, aged fifty-three years. A strict member of the Baptist church, he was the first to establish the same in Muskingum county. He married Miss Mary Trumbo, who was born June 4, 1770, and who died January 10, 1856, when eighty-six years of age. Her grandfather came with a French colony and settled in Hudson bay when George Trumbo, her father, was quite small. From there he moved to Richmond, Va., and there George grew to manhood, married a German girl, Miss Margaret Oatts, and became the father of thirteen children—ten sons and three daughters, Mary, wife of Henry Pringle, being the eldest of this family. To Henry Pringle and wife were born ten children: Peggy, Elizabeth, Mary, William, Melenda, Penina, Jededah and Adaiah (twins), George W. and John, all deceased. Dr. George W. Pringle's first wife was Miss Margaret Wilson, and their nuptials were celebrated September 7, 1843. She was born July 13, 1823, and was the daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Espy) Wilson. Samuel Wilson was the son of William Wilson and was one of nine children. To his marriage were born ten children: William, Thomas, Mary, John, James, Samuel, Robert, Benjamin, Ann and Margaret. Samuel Wilson's second marriage was to Miss Hettie Higby and nine children were born to them: Margaret, Elizabeth, Hettie, Mary A., Louisa, Samuel, Joseph, Obediah and Narcissa. To Dr. Pringle's first union were born six children: Henry C., Mary T., Hettie H., Samuel W., William W. and Margaret L. Margaret, Henry and William are deceased. Henry was a minister in the Presbyterian church, and in 1872 he married Miss Ella Clark, who bore him two children. He died in 1885. Mary married George L. Holliday, September 7, 1870, and now resides in Pittsburg. Hettie was married on the 22d of January, 1870, to Rev. McConkey, of Grove City. Samuel is a minister of the Presbyterian church at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. William, a prominent M.D., died in 1881, and Margaret married W. R. Hutchinson, on the 22d of January, 1887, and died in Broken Bow, Neb., in 1891. Dr. Pringle's first wife died in 1870, and the Doctor received his final summons six years later. On the 15th of January, 1872, he married Miss Jane Cooper, a native of Rich Hill township, born in 1823, and the daughter of William and Priscilla (Drennan) Cooper, natives of Allegheny county, Penn. William Cooper was the son of John Cooper, and he was married in his native county to Miss Drennan, a daughter of Thomas and Isabel (Moore) Drennan. Mrs. Pringle's father and mother were born in the year 1793, and they were married in 1817. In 1818 they moved to Ohio, settled on a farm in Rich Hill township, where they reared the following children: John, died when twenty-six years of age; James, died when thirty-six years of age. The remainder are living: Thomas D., Jane F., Violet P., James, Martha D., Clarissa and Sarah D. Violet is Mrs. Thompson Patterson, of Guernsey county. Martha is Mrs. John Morehead. Clarissa is Mrs. George Miller. Sarah D. married Moses L. Cherry, of Georgia. Mrs. Pringle received her education in the district schools and later became one of the prominent teachers of the county, teaching for six years in Dresden. She has ever taken an interest in the educational affairs of the county as well as all other enterprises of a worthy nature, and has been a church member since nineteen years of age, holding membership in the Presbyterian church at the present time. Her husband was also a member of that church. Thomas D. Cooper, retired farmer, residing at New Concord, Ohio, was born in Rich Hill township, Muskingum county, Ohio, on May 27, 1821, and is one of the esteemed citizens of that county. He is a son of Judge William and Priscilla (Drennan) Cooper, the former a native of Westmoreland county, Penn., born in 1792, and the son of John Cooper who was of German descent. Judge William Cooper was reared in his native county and received a liberal education for that early day. He was married in his native state and came to this county, where he located and resided fifty years, on the same farm. His death occurred in January, 1867. He represented Muskingum county in the legislature in 1832-33 and for twenty-one years was justice of the peace for Rich Hall township. For six years he was also probate judge of Muskingum county. He was a prominent man in politics, and cast his vote with the democratic party. His marriage resulted in the birth of eight children: John L., who died in 1845; Thomas D., (subject); Jane, wife of the late Dr. G. W. Pringle; Violet P., wife of Thompson Patterson of Guernsey county; Martha married John Morehead; Clarissa, is Mrs. George Miller, and Sarah D., married Moses L. Cherry of Rome, Ga. The mother of these children died about 1855. Thomas D. Cooper spent his early life on a farm in Rich Hill township and made his home with his father until after the Civil war. He supplemented a district school education by a term at Muskingum college. In the fall of 1863 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-Second Ohio Volunteer infantry, under Col. Ball of Zanesville, and saw thirty-two months' service. One of the principal battles in which he engaged HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 547 was the Wilderness, where he received a gun shot wound in the leg below the knee, and was on detached duty the rest of the time. He saw much hard service, and since the war has been obliged to abandon farming on account of his wound which troubles him a great deal. He receives a pension. Returning home after the war he married Mrs. Mary E. Van Pelt of Washington city, born about 1829, and the daughter of James Moore, who resided near Zanesville. He followed farming up to 1873, and since then he has been a resident of the different towns of the county. He is a democrat and is interested in politics. He and Mrs. Cooper are members of the Presbyterian church of Zanesville, and are classed among the best citizens of the county. Alexander Prior, Nashport, Ohio. Among the very early settlers of Muskingum county, Ohio, came Timothy Prior, who was a native of Green county, Penn., born January 8, 1761, and of Welsh descent. He was married November 5, 1782, to Miss Barbara Harter, who was born March 17, 1759, and who was of German descent, and the fruits of this union were seven children: John, George, Frederick, Joseph, Catharine, Barbara and Mary. Mr. Prior was one of the pioneer settlers and experienced all the privations incident to early settlers. The family brought their goods on horseback and some members of the family walked, driving bogs, horses and cattle through the snow in the winter of 1799. They settled on the Muskingum river, Muskingum county, near Ellis station on the C. & M. V. R. R., on land now owned by heirs of Elias Ellis, and at a time when there were very few settlers, the Blounts, Bainters and Spurgeons being their neighbors. The entire county was a wilderness, and wild animals of all kinds abounded. Mr. Prior built a log cabin with a pole roof, covered with clapboards split split from logs, and the floor was of split logs called "puncheon." The windows were sometimes covered with a kind of greased paper when the frontiersman was fortunate enough to have paper. Mr. Prior, assisted l y his sons, cleared a piece of land and went to farming. Here he passed the remainder of his days. He died about 1802. He was a member of the Baptist church, and in politics was strictly democratic. He received a letter of dismission from the Church of Christ of that county, which states that " Inasmuch as our esteemed brother, Timothy Pryor, is in Providence about removing to some distant parts, desires a letter of dismission from us. This is to certify that he is a member in full communion with us," etc. This letter is dated May 24, 1800, and signed " Thomas Wright, elk." Letters of administration on the estate of Timothy Pryor were granted to Isaac Prior, of Newtown, Washington county, Ohio, by the court of common pleas and probate, on December 23, 1803. Some time after his death the family moved to the farm now occupied by Charles Riley, in Muskingum township. The land was entered by Barbara Prior in 1813. George Prior, son of Timothy and the father of our subject, was born December 23, 1785. The other children were born as follows: John, October 21, 1783; Frederick, born October 19, 1787; Catharine, born May 15, 1794; Joseph, October 17, 1796; Mary, born September 4, 1799, and Barbara, born February 8, 1803. George Prior had little education, could read and write, but he was a natural mathematician and could solve the most intricate problems mentally. He was a noted hunter, killed many a deer, and had many encounters with black bear, with which the country abounded. He was an excellent marksman. He married Miss Rachel Wood of a Virginia family, and a native of Pendleton county. She was of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. George Prior's marriage resulted in the birth of five children: Isaac W., William H., George W., Alexander and Louisa. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Prior settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Lewis C., and there he resided the remainder of his days, his death occurring at the age of seventy-eight years. In politics he was a stanch democrat. He was trustee of the Baptist church, in which he and wife both held membership. He accumulated considerable property and left at his death 300 acres. His son, Alexander Prior, subject of this memoir, was born January 3, 1821, and on account of being obliged to assist on the farm as soon as large enough, received but a limited education. On November 22, 1842, he married Miss Elizabeth Cole, daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Welsh) Cole. Mr. Cole was originally from Pennsylvania, was an old pioneer, and the father of nineteen children, all of whom lived, and seventeen of whom grew to maturity and married: James, Moses, Aaron, Margaret, George, Nancy, Jane, Rachel, Andrew, Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary A., Harmon, Benjamin, John, Hannah and Jemima. Samuel Cole lived to be seventy-five years of age and died on his farm in Muskingum county. He left a fine estate. He was a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Prior settled on part of the home place and there resided until 1887. He inherited 120 acres, to which he added from time to time until he owned 368 acres, and he now resides on a part of this. His marriage was blessed by the birth of five children: Rachel, George W., Lewis C., Allen and Howard. Mr. Prior lost his wife on May 16, 1854, and September 14, 1881, he married Miss Ruth M. Simpson, daughter of George and Ruth (Wood) Simpson. Mr. Simpson came from Bucks county, Penn., in 1817, and set- 548 - HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY. tied on a farm south of Gratiot, this county. He died in Illinois, in 1869, at the age of seventy-three. He was a comfortable farmer, and a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Prior was trustee in that church for many years, and was also township trustee for one year. He has passed a quiet, uneventful life, and has ever attended strictly to his own business. He is now seventy-one years of age, and is an excellent example of the successful and enterprising farmer. James F. Pryor, Frazeysburg, Ohio, is a native of the Buckeye state, born in Muskingum county, December 6, 1816, and is one of the county's most respected and esteemed citizens. He received but a limited education in the pioneer schools, but by his own efforts gained some knowledge of the arithmetic while teaming and hauling saw logs. On March 16, 1843, he wedded Miss Mary E. Dove, daughter of Isaac and Nancy Dove, the father being a native of Maryland and a pioneer settler of Jackson township. The latter was in comfortable circumstances, was a man of good character, and lived to be quite aged. His children were named as follows: Caroline, William, Richard, Isaiah, Benjamin, Isaac, Anna and Martha. To Mr. and Mrs. James F. Pryor were born the following children: Frederick, Isaac, John, Mary, Tobitha, Sarah, Samuel and Archibald. Mrs. Pryor died March 8, 1863, and Mr. Pryor afterward married Miss Catherine Haselop, February 25, 1864, and the fruits of this union were these children: Andrew J., George W., Alice B., Frank, and Thomas N. After his first marrige Mr. Pryor settled on a small farm, continued teaming, and subsequently bought a half interest in a saw and gristmill near where the bridge crosses the Wakatomaka, and he conducted this mill until 1889, when he was taken sick. Since that time he has been an invalid. In politics he affiliates with the democratic party. He has held a number of local offices, township trustee for twelve years and township treasurer two years, and is one of the county's honorable, upright citizens. Trustworthy and reliable in his dealings he won the confidence of the people, and for many years had a flourishing business. Mrs. Pryor's grandfather, Elijah Haselop was a Virginian but came to Ohio at an early day and settled on what was known as " School lots," in Muskingum county. He became a prosperous and substantial farmer. His wife, whose maiden name was Ella E. Lash, was also a native of the Old Dominion. Their union resulted in the birth of twelve children: Thomas M., Washington, William, Mary, Ellen, John, Ann, Turner, Emily, Marshall, Bush, and one who died when a young man. Mr. Haselop died in Muskingum county when quite aged. His eldest son, Thomas NI., was also a native of Virginia, and was a good- sized boy when he came with his parents to Muskingum county. He was a farmer by occupation and married Miss Mary Lash, daughter of Peter Lash, who was a native of Germany. To them were born the following children: Sarah, Jane, Catherine (wife of subject), Elizabeth, Hilda, Eliza G., Ruth, John W., Thomas, Martha and Alice. Thomas M. Haselop resided for some time in this county and then moved to Indiana whither his father had gone. Both he and Mrs. Haselop were members of the Missionary Baptist church and he was a deacon in the same. He was one of the county's best citizens and was universally. respected. James F. Pryor's grandfather, Timothy Pryor, was originally from Pennsylvania, but came to Ohio and settled on the Muskingum river, near Simms' creek, in what is now Muskingum township, about 1798-99. [See sketch of Alexander Prior.] He was married and brought his family with him. The children now remembered by our subject are: Joseph, John, George, Frederick, Barbara, Mary and Catherine. When Mr. Pryor settled in this township it was a wilderness and swarmed with wild animals and Indians. He had little trouble to provide food for his family, game being so abundant, and by hard work and industry he soon had a comfortable little home in the forest. He died before any of his children were married, and his widow married again. She was of German descent. Frederick Pryor, son of Timothy, and father of our subject, was also born in the Keystone state and was eleven years of age when he came to the Ohio wilderness. Although he received but little education, he succeeded in learning to read newspapers and books by his own efforts and was a well-posted man on all the current topics of the day. He was a hunter and pioneer and wore his hunting shirt until he was an old man. It was formerly made of buckskin but later of woolen goods, fringed around the bottom and fitted to the waist with a belt. He killed a great deal of game and was well known as a splendid marksman. He married Miss Tobitha Wilkins, daughter of Thomas Wilkins, and to them were born thirteen children: Thomas, Timothy, Levi, James, Samuel, William, David, Daniel (died when a young man), Margaret and Mary, are those who lived to be grown. Mr. Pryor settled on a farm in Muskingum township, but later moved to Jefferson township (now Cass), and there resided until his death, in 1862, when seventy-four years of age. He was a successful farmer and owned 360 acres of land. In politics he was a democrat. He was well and favorably known among the old settlers and was an industrious, practical farmer. Hon. L. Rambo is engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods under the firm name of L. Rambo & Co., in the details of which calling he is well HISTORY OF MUSKINGUM COUNTY - 549 versed, owing to long experience in the business. He is a native of Knox county, Ohio, where he first saw the light of day on August 6, 1821, but his parents, William and Grace (Levering) Rambo, were Pennsylvanians who removed to Knox county in 1812, the death of the former occurring in 1854 and that of the latter in 1853. Hon. L. Rambo assisted his father on the home farm until he attained his fifteenth year, then engaged in wool carding and in 1845 in the manufacture of woolen goods at Rocky fork on Licking river. In 1848 his establishment was unfortunately burned, but he afterward located near Newark and started a woolen mill, but since 1852 has conducted a like establishment at Dresden, the product of which is all that could be desired. In addition to successfully managing his mill much of his attention is also given to agriculture, in which he is equally prosperous. He owns 526 acres of land in the Muskingum valley, the entire tract being exceedingly fertile and valuable. He is a shrewd and practical man of business, is wide awake to his own interests, but has never been known to wrong others. He was first a whig in politics, then became a republican and still Affiliates with that party, by which he was elected in 1875 to the general assembly, by a majority of fifty-one votes while the county went democratic 400 votes. He served one term with distinguished ability, during which time he was true to his convictions and to the interests of the section which he represented. He is one of the foremost men of the county and has carved out his own career, his success being due to his own persistence and native tact and business ability. For six years he was a member 6f the Dresden school board. In 1843 Sarah A. Walker became his wife, she being a daughter of John Walker who settled in Knox county in 1808. To their union three children have been born: E. J., of Findlay, Ohio; A. E., of Dresden, and Elmira. Solomon Bees (deceased) Zanesville, Ohio, whose death occurred on October 8, 1887, was one of the prominent citizens of the county and a man universally respected. He was a native-born resident of Muskingum county, his birth occurring August 6, 1825, and was the youngest of ten children born to the marriage of Jacob and Elizabeth (Baumgardner) Rees, both of whom were of German descent. The father was a native of Maryland and emigrated to Perry county, Ohio, in 1800. There he resided for a few years and then moved to Muskingum county, near Zanesville, where he purchased 600 or 700 acres of land. There his death occurred on September 22, 1863, when eighty-six years of age . His wife had died on October 16, 1853, at the age of seventy-four. Their son, Solomon, began assisting on the farm at an early age and although he received but an ordinary education in the public schools, he was ever a great reader, a close student and was thoroughly posted on all subjects. At the age of twenty-one he began farming for himself, taking a share of the crops in compensation for the use of the land, and being economical, soon accumulated considerable means. On November 23, 1842 he was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Wahl, who was fourth in a family of six children born to Christian and Magdalene (Wentz) Wahl, the parents natives of Germany. The father was born in 1788 and the mother in 1791, both in Wurtemberg. About 1820 Mr. Wahl with his family emigrated to America and experienced great trouble and danger in making the voyage. There was a conspiracy on the part of the captain and crew to murder the passengers for their money, poison being mixed with their food. This was discovered by Mr. Wahl and the lives of hundreds of passengers saved. The vessel was wrecked and deserted by the captain. The passengers were picked up by a passing vessel and landed in America. Mr. and Mrs. Wahl, made their way to Zanesville, thence to Somerset, and finally settled in Richville where the father died April 3, 1833, at the age of forty-four. He was a soldier in the French army for ten years and served as captain. Mrs. Wahl died in her eighty-second year. Mrs. Rees was born October 6, 1828, and is still living and enjoying comparatively good health. At the age of nineteen Mr. Rees was united with the Evangelical church and remained with that until its dissolution, when, with his wife, he transferred his connection to the First Presbyterian church on October 6, 1860. The following year he was elected to the position of ruling elder and continued in the faithful performance of the duties of that office up to the time of his death. He was a man of excellent judgment and good sound sense and his advice was sought by all who knew him. In his death the children lost a loving father and the mother a kind and devoted husband. His death left a void that can not be filled, foremost in all good enterprises and was ever ready to assist the poor and needy. Mrs. Rees still resides on the old homestead which consists of 200 acres of well improved farming land. On this farm there has been found several good veins of bituminous coal. To Mr. and Mrs. Rees were born the following children, six now living: Amanda (deceased), L. A., Henry C., W. T., Ellen R., A. M., Edwin A. (died in infancy), Charles C. (died in infancy), Fred. W. and Fannie. Mr. Rees was a republican in every sense of the term. He was a member of the S. of T. and was judge of election. A. C. Richards, freight agent for the B. &. O. R. R. at Zanesville, Ohio, is a native of New Jersey, born in Waterford, January 27, 1861. His